[Mageia-dev] fontconfig rules of google droid fonts

Thu Mar 1 09:50:34 CET 2012

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?
+