14 DAY TRIAL // Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca" is already expected by the community and most users will choose to upgrade, but the developers have made a few improvements for the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
As you can imagine, it's quite difficult to bring support for languages other than English and the ones that have other alphabets than the Latin one pose an even greater challenge.
When you're trying to provide support for Asian languages, the problem becomes even trickier. This is where the Linux Mint developers have decided to improve the distribution.
"By default, Linux Mint 17.1 'Rebecca' is using the Noto fonts, but the package for these fonts (noto-fonts) does not provide support for CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean). In other words, the rendering of text in these languages is done via a font fallback on the traditional Sans font. A new package called noto-fonts-cjk, which provides Noto Sans CJK Version 1.001, was added to the Rebecca repositories today," is noted on the official website.
There is only one catch. It's impossible to integrate by default because it's a pretty big package, but users will be able to install it from the repositories with just one command:
