[Mageia-dev] fontconfig rules of google droid fonts

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 09:24:45 CET 2012


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 07:04, You-Cheng Hsieh <yochenhsieh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Was the fontconfig rules of google droid fonts used for any specific purpose?
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/google-droid-fonts/current/SOURCES/
>
> There is a Mageia1/cauldron bug which might be involved with those
> fontconfig rules:
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751
>
> Currently, with these config present, libreoffice cannot show proper
> font fallback while typing Chinese characters.
>
> By removing these config files, the problem is reduced to only happen
> in Droid Sans. If there's no other regressions or side-effects, please
> consider removing these fontconfig rules and rebuild
> google-droid-fonts for mageia 1 core update & caldron.
>
> Thanks.

I don't know anything about fontconfig but can removing those parts be enough?

4	  <alias>
5	    <family>monospace</family>
6	    <prefer>
7	      <family>Droid Sans Mono</family>
8	    </prefer>
9	  </alias>

140	  <alias>
141	    <family>sans-serif</family>
142	    <prefer>
143	      <family>Droid Sans</family>
144	    </prefer>
145	  </alias>

4	  <alias>
5	    <family>serif</family>
6	    <prefer>
7	      <family>Droid Serif</family>
8	    </prefer>
9	  </alias>


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