[Fontconfig] Request for implementing font substitution for CJK fonts

[BlissSam]

Sorry for my misconfigured mail software and all new-lines vanished in the previous mail.


I would like to explain it in detail.
What I mean is, the substitution table I have given IS ALREADY minimal and basic--SimSun to Chinese is like Times New Roman to English.

More than 90% of the Chinese users will use SimSun or STSong as their default serif font, so IT IS COMMON ENOUGH, Just like more than 90% of the English users will choose Arial or Helvetica as their sans-serif font.
But I think a easy-to-use tool to generate font substitution (and also font preferences) is necessary too. So other fonts (e.g. Wei-style or Li-style, they are NOT MINIMAL) substitution rules can be applied by user.




Thanks all the same even if you have different opinions.

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> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:14:35 +0900
> Subject: Re: [Fontconfig] Request for implementing font substitution for CJK fonts
> From: akira at tagoh.org
> To: m13253 at hotmail.com
> CC: fontconfig at lists.freedesktop.org
>
> First of all, my opinion on this kind of question/suggestion is, to
> let you encourage to work together with the font upstream or the
> distros if you want the complete list of the fallback. this is because
> it's quite hard to settle all of requirements and preferences. IMHO
> having minimal amount of the rules in fontconfig would be sufficient.
> we could have an example in fontconfig how to write the rule of the
> fallback though, it's not the things that mean our recommendation
> about the order of the fonts.
> Aside from that, having the rules in fontconfig for the fonts may not
> installed on the system more or less affects its performance and
> footprint.
>
> Well, that may be nice if we can provide a tool to generate the kind
> of the rules instead as I posted here some while ago. dunno.
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:20 PM, BlissSam <m13253 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello fontconfig, I am a Simplified Chinese user, and I want font
> > substitution for CJK fonts to be implemented.
> >
> > Most Chinese fonts are mainly divided into four styles:
> >   1. Song (Pronounced `soon'), serif, also called `Ming' in Taiwan and Hong
> > Kong, `Mincho' in Japan, `Batang' in Korea)
> >   2. Hei, sans-serif, also called `Meiryo' in Japan, `Dotum' in Korea
> >   3. Kai, brush handwriting style, likely to be serif
> >   4. FangSong, likely to be sans-serif
> >   5. Others such as Li, Wei, etc, is not discussed here.
> >
> > I have sorted these fonts according to my preference, however, I do not know
> > a lot about what fonts users in TW, HK, JP, or KR prefer.
> >
> > Hei:
> >   WenQuanYi Micro Hei (Free font)
> >   WenQuanYi Zen Hei   (Free font)
> >   Hiragino Sans GB    (Used in OS X Lion as default)
> >   Microsoft Yahei     (Used in Windows Vista and above as default)
> >   STHeiTi             (Used in iOS as default, in OS X and in Windows)
> >   SimHei              (Used in Windows)
> >   Droid Sans Fallback (Used in Android as default)
> >
> > Song:
> >   STSong         (Used in OS X and in Windows)
> >   SimSun         (Used in Windows)
> >   AR PL UMing CN (Free font, this is the worst choice because Arphic's CN
> > fonts are in TW style although it is marked `CN')
> >
> > Kai:
> >   STKaiti       (Used in OS X and in Windows)
> >   KaiTi         (Used in Windows Vista and above)
> >   KaiTi_GB2312  (Used in Windows XP and below)
> >   AR PL UKai CN (Free font)
> >
> > FangSong:
> >   STFangsong      (Used in OS X and in Windows)
> >   FangSong        (Used in Windows Vista and above)
> >   FangSong_GB2312 (Used in Windows XP and below)
> >
> > What I want to be implemented is, when one of the fonts is missing,
> > fontconfig will search for others for substitution.
> > For example, if a document requires SimHei which is not installed currently,
> > fontconfig may use WenQuanYi Micro Hei instead. And if Micro Hei is missing
> > either, Zen Hei will be used.
> >
> > Sincerely yours.
> >
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Akira TAGOH