https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140881
خالد حسني <kha...@aliftype.com> changed:
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--- Comment #19 from خالد حسني <kha...@aliftype.com> ---
WOFF and WOFF2 are compressed OpenType/TrueType fonts for use on the web (where
file size matters). While WOFF uses GZIP for compression and is somewhat
relatively easy to decompress, WOFF2 uses Brotli compression and on top of that
many font tables are transformed to compress better and need to de-transformed
back (I wrote the WOFF2 test suite for the W3C webfonts working group).
Supporting such fonts will require at least a couple of extra dependencies for
very little gain since Linux system are the only systems that allow installing
these fonts.
Also installing WOFF/WOFF2 files is a bad idea, if your distribution did this
report it as a bug, and installing multiple formats of the same fonts is even
worse, also report to your distribution.
FontConfig does not provide a way to distinguish WOFF/WOFF2 from regular fonts,
they are reported as their contained font, so we have no way to filter them out
as we do with Type 1 and bitmap fonts other than sniffing the fonts (I don’t
even think FontConfig intentionally support WOFF/WOFF2, it just happens to work
for it because it uses FreeType to identify the fonts and FreeType supports
them).
My suggestion is WONTFIX unless someone has a clear idea what to do here.
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