Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910875

Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2013-02-16 11:36:41

--- Comment #1 from Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> ---
While the complete hiding of DroidSansFallback is an unintended side-effect of
the method we use to merge Droid fonts in fontconfig I'm pretty sure it does
not matter since the merged "Droid Sans" will include all the codepoints of the
files we built it from.

Therefore fc-match is correct: in Fedora you should use "Droid Sans" for your
DroidSansFallback needs. Our Droid Sans is as complete as DroidSansFallback,
except that some DroidSansFallback glyphs are being transparently replaced by
better versions from other Droid fonts.

Now of course that only works if your application is using fontconfig properly.
If you only use fontconfig to find font files on the system, but do not use the
fontconfig substitution engine on a per-glyph basis, things are going to be
hard for you.

And this kind of partial fontconfig support is definitely something we do *not*
want to encourage in Fedora: use the system glyph substitution rules, if you
find holes in them fix them, but do not try to work around them, having
different font behaviour in apps because they're making shortcuts in their
fontconfig plumbing is not something that is helping users at all.

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