Post by Kentaro HAYASHIThanks, I didn't know that way yet.
You're welcome!
Post by Kentaro HAYASHISurely it seems better to do it there.
Alright, I've built (many more but I'm only publishing) two mini.iso,
one called âpristineâ (without font-related changes) except it came with
a +10 on the font size to help me spot differences, and another one
called âmotoyalcedarâ (using MotoyaLCedar for Japanese) also with a +10
on the font size.
Some differences I spotted (keeping in mind I know close to nothing
about Japanese):
- vertical space between lines is less important with MotoyaLCedar;
- hiragana and katakana glyphs are slightly different, but that's the
kind of small differences I'd expect in different fonts, what you
called âfont stylingâ;
- some kanji glyphs looked like they could fall in the âsmall
differencesâ category, but your webpage helped me spot å
¥ in the
hostname screen (first paragraph, first line), making it clear it's
indeed correct with MotoyaLCedar, and incorrect with the default
font. On the following screen (domain name), I think maybe å is also
incorrect (Han vs. Japanese), at least that'd be my reading of
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%88%86 (extra horizontal stroke at
the top with the default font, which goes away with MotoyaLCedar)?
(First paragraph, first line, towards the end.)
Images and some screenshots are available at the following location if
others want to check that out:
https://people.debian.org/~kibi/bug-1037256/
(Also contains fonts-motoya-l-cedar_1.01-5_all.udeb which I manually
repacked from its deb counterpart.)
Using motoyalcedar would mean an extra 2 MB in the initramfs, which
looks like a lot compared to 3 MB for fonts-android-udeb, so maybe it'd
be worth thinking a little more about this before submitting a udeb
addition to src:fonts-motoya-l-cedar and adding it to pkg-lists.
I'm not saying this is a minor issue or âJapanese isn't worth the extra
2 MBâ of course, your webpage is pretty clear about how bad it looks to
native speakers, and the âlatinâ equivalent you included to demonstrate
that is top-notch!
Your webpage mentioned Noto, which we already include (with just Sinhala
and Gujarati in the installer). The source package features more fonts,
but apparently not for Japanese, maybe that would be worth exploring?
In any case it might be worth bumping the font size a little for
Japanese (by 1 or 2, maybe not 10 like I did for the tests aboveâŠ)?
Cheers,
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