Comment 119 for bug 1468027

On 2016-04-30 06:40, Cheng-Chia Tseng wrote:
> Using subset OTFs is suggested for OS exept MacOS and Windows by the
> README file from Source Han Sans (same as Noto Sans CJK).

According to the README.formats file, which is included in the fonts-noto-cjk source package, OTC "works" on recent versions of Mac and Linux but not Windows. So they don't seem to be identical.

> However, as I stated previously, I believe using Super OTC is a way
> to find where the apps in Linux world which has some problems dealing
> with this "super font," and that helps shape a better Linux world in
> the future. People find the problem, report the problem, and the
> problem be fixed one day.

Hmm.. I see now that you anticipated problems with "Super OTC" [1] long ago. At that time I hadn't a clue what you were talking about. :(

What you say is correct, but we shouldn't use the whole community of Ubuntu users as a test panel, should we?

> To be the first to find the problems and work with upstreams to fix
> them? Or just do as the official recommendation to get the better
> result and serve users better first?

Why not do both? I filed this ticket:
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk/issues/65

Hopefully it's the right place.

Can you possibly confirm that the PPA version of fonts-noto-cjk addresses the issues we have found up to now (at the expense of more disk space)?

[1] Super OTC is the font format installed with the version of
    fonts-noto-cjk which is currently in the Ubuntu archive.