Re: Use Microsoft YaHei UI as UI font for Chinese language

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 11/04/2024 13:42, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> On 03/04/2024 14:19, Yang Yu Lin via Cygwin wrote:
>> For Chinese language, the app’s default UI font is Microsoft YaHei UI. 
>> Using MS Shell Dlg makes the UI become annoying.
>> Here are my changes:
>> diff --git a/res/zh_Hans/res.rc b/res/zh_Hans/res.rc
>> index 9f67a5a..da9d6e8 100644
>> --- a/res/zh_Hans/res.rc
>> +++ b/res/zh_Hans/res.rc
>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LANGUAGE LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED
>>   IDD_SOURCE DIALOG 0, 0, SETUP_STANDARD_DIALOG_DIMS
>>   STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | DS_CENTER | WS_CHILD | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
>>   CAPTION "Cygwin 安装程序 - 选择安装类型"
>> -FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"
>> +FONT 9, "Microsoft YaHei UI"
> 
> Thanks very much for this patch!
> 
> So, this isn't applicable as is, because the localized res.rc files are 
> generated from a template res.rc file and the language .po file (using 
> po2rc from Translate Toolkit [1][2]).  See section starting after "rules 
> for translation maintenance" in Makefile.am
> 
> However, this seems like it would be straightforward to do via a 
> post-processing step there.

I added this.

It seems this makes the whole dialog bigger (presumably since it's sized 
in DLU, which are based on the font metrics, which are different for 
this font).

> I'll take your word over the aesthetics of the font choice, but I do 
> have a question about what versions of Windows we can assume that font 
> is available on (in theory at least, one might be using a current setup 
> executable to install Cygwin from the CTM on OSs back to Windows XP3)

I've build an updated setup with these changes [1].  Please give this a 
try and see if it looks better to you.

[1] https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.932.x86_64.exe