On 2023-01-20 23:56:43 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-01-20 18:56:46 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > So I think this is probably working as intended, and the configuration > > change that prompted your different font rendering is that fontconfig > > 2.13.1 had Bitstream Vera Sans as its fallback font, whereas 2.14.1 has > > Noto Sans and DejaVu Sans listed as its preferred sans-serif fonts for > > Latin text, as a result of > > <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/fcb042028126d79ea5a5fa015b2b034b98656e73> > > and then > > <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/ad70d785974992c569b30108923875e5b5e9dc5e>. > > This change was not announced. I think that the change of the default > font is quite a big change. I've just noticed that I also did a mistake > when I retrieved the /etc/fonts contents to compare them, which led the > symlinks to be excluded. :(
Actually, this is now Noto, which explains the behavior: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/ad70d785974992c569b30108923875e5b5e9dc5e BTW, I'm wondering whether this isn't configurable in a simple way. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
