From the talk page (haven't tested myself):
Default font looks terrible. Source Hans Sans + Source Hans Serif would be a great option. All it takes is to install the font set.
Keywords: Chinese Fonts, Korean Fonts, Japanese Fonts.
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- T257736: Non-Latin/Cyrillic/Arabic Character Rendering is broken for PDF rendering
T229894: whitelist user Viztor[S] in CI
T228591: Document how to request installing additional fonts for SVG thumbnails and generated PDF files on Wikimedia servers - Mentioned Here
- T184664: Install Noto fonts on scaling servers for SVG rendering
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Can someone just do this? It's quite simple maintenance that need no more expertise than a power user.
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You can submit a patch to the operations/puppet repo if you want to speed things up. See the tutorials for Puppet and Gerrit.
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@Viztor: If Debian packages exist, feel free to propose a patch in Gerrit: The files to edit are https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/operations-puppet/browse/production/modules/mediawiki/manifests/packages/fonts.pp and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/fc-list
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Change 528279 had a related patch set uploaded (by Viztor; owner: Viztor):
[operations/puppet@production] Add fonts-noto-cjk-extra, replace fonts-noto-cjk
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Looks like the font is already installed in T184664, but its CJK variations weren't included in fc-list. I'm not sure it seems we're running on Stretch? fonts-noto-cjk on Buster also includes Noto Serif CJK, in addition to Noto Sans CJK.
Note: Google Noto Sans/Serif is the same as Adobe Source Sans/Serif
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Change 528290 had a related patch set uploaded (by Viztor; owner: Viztor):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add Noto Sans CJK + Noto Mono CJK fonts
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@Viztor: We're currently running the Mediawiki servers on Stretch, but if we needed there's also the option to backport fonts-noto-cjk from Buster to our internal repository.
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It would be best if we can do that, Noto/Source Serif CJK is the most comprehensive free serif CJK font available out there as of now. It would also be sweet if we can also back-port fonts-noto-cjk-extra which includes addition font-weights. I'm just not sure how we should do that though.
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fonts-noto-cjk and fonts-noto-cjk-extra are two binary packages built from the same source package (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_build_toolchain#debian/control) for context. This means that if we build the package from Buster for Stretch both would be upgraded. We currently don't use fonts-noto-cjk-extra on the Wikimedia production servers, though. Is that something that should be considered independently of the backport?