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fontconfig.properties needs to be updated for Japanese

Bug #115573 reported by Masaki on 2007-05-19

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	sun-java6 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The default fontconfig.properties is not working properly for Japanese. There are several issues,

- chinese fonts are being used in Japanese locale because of this line

sequence.allfonts.UTF-8=latin-1,chinese-gb18030

this should be prepared per language. For Japanese case, it should be

sequence.allfonts.UTF-8.ja=latin-1,japanese-x0208

(See my comment in Korean font issue - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/113494)

- default font is defined as "sazanami-gothic" and "sazanami-mincho", but these are not default fonts in Japanese desktop
These should be changed to ipamona fonts like

filename.-ipamona-uigothic-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-c-*-jisx0208.1983-0=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ipamona/ipagui-mona.ttf
filename.-ipamona-mincho-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-c-*-jisx0208.1983-0=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ipamona/ipamp-mona.ttf
awtfontpath.japanese-x0208=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ipamona/

I will attach the diffs later.

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Masaki (masaki-katakai) wrote on 2007-05-19:

Correct japanese fonts Edit (12.5 KiB, text/plain)

Attached diffs.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote on 2007-06-27:

sun-java6 (6-01-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream bug fix release. Closes LP: #115687.
  * Update fontconfig.properties for Japanese. Closes LP: #115573.
  * Update fontconfig.properties for Korean. Closes LP: #113494.

-- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:07:58 +0200