[Bug 492510] Regression: wqy-bitmap-fonts preferred font over truetype fonts

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Qianqian Fang <fangqq at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #38 from Qianqian Fang <fangqq at gmail.com>  2009-04-29 00:02:07 EDT ---
Akira, I reassigned Bug#476459 since you are the maintainer of vlgothic-fonts. 

I want to make sure you understand my rationales for solving these two bugs:
first of all, 65-nolatin sets the default font orders for cjk fonts, it does
not, and perhaps should not, assume which locale is preferred, therefore, it
won't solve the font variant issues for CJK. The solution is to introduce
language-specific font config files. Unfortunately, Fedora does not have
language-selector settings as in Ubuntu. Currently, the language specific font
orders for Chinese is done by the fontconfig files associated with the default
Chinese font (Zen Hei and Bitmap Song). However, Japanese does not have such
config files, and completely relies on 65-nonlatin (which is not only
out-dated, but also giving zh locale a lower priority).

Therefore, either you want to introduce a Japanese specific font config file to
set the preferred font orders for lang=ja, or you simply define VL Gothic as
the default Sans for ja in the vlgothic-fonts config files, just like the file
you proposed for this bug (you do need to replace zh to ja and reset the font
names).

I believe that a better solution would be the first one in the long run, but
for now, the second solution is not bad either (in the future, this file can
directly renamed to language-selector-ja_JP.conf or something like that).

Let me know if this is making sense to you.

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