http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204007 Bug ID: 1204007 Summary: Use region-specific variant of noto sans/serif cjk fonts, not language-specific ones as source Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other Assignee: screening-team-bugs@suse.de Reporter: i@marguerite.su QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Hi, I am the initial packager of google-noto-sans/serif-CJK-fonts and the maintainer of our fonts-config. In the early version of that package, I used region-specific variants. Later Mr. hillwood replaced them with language-specific variants and accepted the submit request by himself, then guoyunhe continued to update that package with language specific ones There is a known bug back in 2016 that Japanese variant wll always take effect due to the alphabetical order so you can not see any chinese variant. Nowadays in 2022, although pango/harfbuzz/freetype support opentype locl feature and language tagging underlying, this regression still exists because: 1. All Qt applications don���t support any opentype features because QFont doesn���t implemented such things 2. GTK supports them but rare application made use of that, eg: GIMP still can���t use opentype features although GTKFontChooser allows such usage since 3.24 3. Such usage needs programming, it does not mean users can simply set up font variant in system settings and the Simplified Chinese variant will apply everywhere. Every application/web page needs to enable opentype locl features during programming. So only professional application like Adobe CS 6 may adapt to it. We will not see it work out of the box in the foreseeable future. So the only benefit of using language-specific variants is its code point coverage, but seldom people needs to display Pan CJK everyday while everyone hates to see Japanese variant in charge under non-Japanese locales And openSUSE���s fonts-config were implemented with region-specific font names eg ���Noto Sans SC��� not ���Noto Sans CJK SC���. such packaging nearly destroyed those font configurations Please fix -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.