Package: fontconfig Version: 2.8.0-3.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I apologize for my ignorance on the subject and I ask you to reassign this bug as appropriate. It seems that whatever algorithm the "fonts' subsystem" is using to select the fonts it will export as 'serif', 'sans-serif' etc., it is making bad choices for non-latin scripts. In particular: 1) Open up icedove and try to compose a message in Greek. Icedove will report the font as 'sans-serif' and the text will look nice. 2) Install package ttf-bitstream-vera. 3) Repeat step one. Now some fonts (noticeably the small greek letter pi) will look quite ugly. It seems a math font is being used, which does not look acceptably good in normal text. 4) Removing ttf-bitstream-vera fixes the problem. Installing a new font on your system should not break installed apps, hence I am reporting this as a bug. In particular Bitstream Vera (as fas as I know) does not contain a Greek script (expept perhaps the troublesome letter pi), and hence is not suitable as a default global 'sans-serif' font. Alternatively, the fallback Greek script should be selected (as a whole) out of a font which supports the whole range of Greek characters. Thanks, Panayiotis -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages fontconfig depends on: ii fontconfig-config 2.9.0-6 ii libc6 2.13-30 ii libexpat1 2.1.0-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-6 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 fontconfig recommends no packages. Versions of packages fontconfig suggests: ii defoma 0.11.12 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
