Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-02-03 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2023-02-03 17:20, Simon McVittie wrote: On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 at 11:49:34 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: I chose to set "Monospace" when needed instead of specifying "DejaVu Sans Mono" explicitly. You said in the new patch that fontconfig prefers DejaVu Sans Mono as its implementation of

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-02-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 at 11:49:34 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > I chose to set "Monospace" when needed instead of specifying "DejaVu Sans > Mono" explicitly. You said in the new patch that fontconfig prefers DejaVu Sans Mono as its implementation of Monospace in Arabic-script locales. To

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-02-03 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Hi again, Simon! On 2023-01-26 15:50, Simon McVittie wrote: Another option would be to change the gnome-terminal patch so that if the locale is Arabic *and* the default font is either "Monospace" or "Ubuntu Mono", we replace it with "DejaVu Sans Mono" of the same

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-01-26 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2023-01-27 00:55, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:39 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: That detail made me curious. I suppose it's related to this commit: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/ad70d785 Which is not only about monospace, but affects most

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-01-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:39 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > That detail made me curious. I suppose it's related to this commit: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/ad70d785 > > Which is not only about monospace, but affects most Debian users, also > for sans-serif

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-01-26 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2023-01-26 15:50, Simon McVittie wrote: * "Monospace" is a fontconfig alias intended to point to a generic monospace font, which until recently was resolved to DejaVu Sans Mono by fontconfig. Since the recent upgrade to fontconfig 2.14, "Monospace" now prefers Noto Sans Mono instead,

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-01-26 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Thanks for your reply, Simon. It helped me realize a significant difference between Ubuntu and Debian with respect to desktop configuration: While Ubuntu sets a *specific* font (Ubuntu Mono) as the default monospace font, Debian just sets "Monospace" and with that defers to fontconfig. To

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-01-26 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 14:46:44 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > Ubuntu just added a patch to set DejaVu Sans Mono as the default font in > gnome-terminal for Arabic users. > > Related discussions: > > https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/33413 > >

Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

2023-01-26 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Package: src:gnome-terminal Version: 3.46.7-1 Ubuntu just added a patch to set DejaVu Sans Mono as the default font in gnome-terminal for Arabic users. Related discussions: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/33413 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2002290 For other users and applications Ubuntu uses