Peter Maydell wrote:
>fontconfig appears to ignore a user's fonts.conf <prefers> list if it's
>in a Japanese locale.
>I have a ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf which includes
> <alias>
> <family>serif</family>
> <prefer>
> <family>Source Serif Pro</family>
> <family>IPAMincho</family>
> </prefer>
> </alias>
After some experimentation I have been able to get the results
I wanted by replacing the above <alias> block with:
<match>
<test name="family">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Source Serif Pro</string>
</edit>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>IPAMincho</string>
</edit>
</match>
(the 'binding="strong" part in particular seems to be required.)
However I still don't understand why the <alias> version doesn't work --
the documentation doesn't say anything about <alias> being locale
dependent or circumstances where fontconfig will ignore it.
thanks
-- PMM
