#1834: FontDir /usr/share/fonts is wrong
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.2
Component: BOOK | Version: a-SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Please remove FontDir /usr/share/fonts from non-modular X build
instructions. This leads to the following bad consequences:
* Fontconfig (which by default scans the entire /usr/share/fonts) wastes
time and memory looking at bitmap fonts
* Non-ISO10646-1 bitmap fonts confuse FreeType's idea about mapping from
Unicode to glyph index, thus leading to incorrect display of some
characters
* fontconfig finds a bitmap version of Helvetica and hands that to
Firefox when rendering some web pages. Result: no antialiasing.
Bitmap fonts are only for obsolete toolkits like GTK1 and belong in
/usr/{,X11R6}/lib/X11/fonts.
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