Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 3/16/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In my opinion, if Firefox and other Fontconfig dependent apps cannot
render Chinese or Japanese glyphs that is a bug. The solution is to
install bitmap fonts in a location where Fontconfig can find them. I
think the wise thing to do would be to put things back to the way they
were and install fonts in /usr/share/fonts...
You're probably right about that being a bug. I'd like to here
Alexander's take on this since I think he understands the font issues
pretty well. Have you tried using the DejaVu fonts?
I've tried the DejaVu fonts. They're nice fonts, but they don't help
with this issue.
The thing about putting all the fonts in /usr/share/fonts is that it's
bad to have some bitmap fonts there. Like firefox using the adobe
bitmapped fonts when a page calls for Helvetica (I think that's from
Alexander).
Fair enough, if some specific fonts are causing trouble then don't
install them, or delete them, or whatever. But IMO, avoiding *all*
bitmap fonts throws the baby out with the bathwater.
Andy
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