[Mageia-dev] fontconfig rules of google droid fonts

[You-Cheng Hsieh]

2012/3/1 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>
> 140       <alias>
> 141         <family>sans-serif</family>
> 142         <prefer>
> 143           <family>Droid Sans</family>
> 144         </prefer>
> 145       </alias>
Thanks, that should do the same.
Problem still happen while user typing Chinese with Droid Sans, but at
least writer is now usable.

Google-droid-fonts is a maintained package so we should wait for
Dmorgan to respond?