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

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

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'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 wonder if we ought to be using "MS Shell Dlg 2" and/or DS_SHELLFONT, 
but the documentation about those is incomprehensible.



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[1] https://github.com/translate/translate
[2] (Although there may be some patches needed which have yet to make it 
upstream, so this might not work for you, yet)