https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2547637
Bug ID: 2547637
Summary: Default monospace font in Arabic Workstation install,
Vazirmatn, looks awful as a console font
Product: Fedora
Version: 45
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: fontconfig
Severity: medium
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Created attachment 2160392
--> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=2160392&action=edit
screenshot of awful console font in Arabic Workstation install
Recently, kmscon (the new userspace console in Fedora 45 and Rawhide) switched
to using freetype-based font rendering. It requests the "monospace" font, so
what you get depends to an extent on the package set installed.
Most package sets give you something that looks fine, like Noto Sans Mono, but
I noticed that on the openQA Arabic install test, the console looks *awful*. I
reproduced this manually. If you do an Arabic install with the Workstation
package set, you get a horribly-spaced console font. `fc-match "monospace"`
says that it is:
Vazirmatn[wght].ttf: "Vazirmatn" "Regular"
Not sure exactly how we should address this, so filing against fontconfig for
now. Do we need to change the fonts installed with Arabic? The config files?
kmscon?
See attached screenshot.
Note that if I run a GNOME Terminal, it doesn't use this font. It looks like it
uses the same font it would on an English install. I guess it doesn't use
'monospace' but a font that GNOME denotes as its default monospace font, or
something.
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