Use specific font for Japanese (!58) · Merge requests · Debian Installer / debian-installer

Kentaro Hayashi requested to merge kenhys/debian-installer:use-motoya into master Jan 04, 2025

Because of Han Unification, GUI installer don't render Japanese typeface (glyph) correctly for a long time since Debian 9 (stretch)

As it takes extra disk usage, use compressed font for Japanese. MotoyaLCedar is good enough balance with point of view of disk usage, readability and visibility.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1037256

NOTE: This change additionally requires to support compressed font and updated rootskel-gtk.

Use specific font for Japanese

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