Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fontconfig
To find out what font the fontconfig matches to a generic, say Sans, for a language, say English-US, I can use fc-match command in following two ways: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 && fc-match Sans fc-match Sans:lang=en_US.UTF-8 Of the above two it is usually the second I use for finding what fonts are set to Sans, Mono and Serif for different languages. Now in freshly installed Ubuntu 10.10 - Beta platform / Gnome Desktop/ I find that the second form fails to reveal correct matching only in case of Serif generic for any language. I have shown comparison of the above two forms of command usage - Sans, Mono and Serif respectively for languages en-US, ta_IN (Tamil), si_LK (Sinhala) and hi_IN (Hindi). As shown by the boxed in (with red) parts , the above 2nd form of usage on left terminal yields match to Serif for each language wrongly as "Lohit Tamil" font whereas on the right side the first form if usage reveals correct matches. By checking out effects of changing fonts in GEDIT, I have found that actual matching is correct as revealed by the first of the above two forms. So it is the second syntax that is affected only for Serif. Since I noticed another issue with newly introduced 90-ttf-tamil- fonts.conf (ref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic- fonts/+bug/630269 ) I got to wonder whether the newly introduced 90-ttf-<language>-fonts.conf (wherein <language> to mean Tamil, Hindi etc ) files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail cause these problems. I removed the "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-ttf-tamil-fonts.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/90 -ttf-tamil-fonts.conf" link first. Sure enough "Lohit Tamil" changed to "Lohit Punjabi" in the above mentioned wrong results. Then removing the link for Punjabi, the wrong result changes to another indic language font and so on. Removing such "90-ttf-" links for all indic languages restores normalcy for the fc-match command usage with ":lang=" element ! So it appears the bug arises from the conf files whose file name start with "90-ttf-" K. Sethu ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: fontconfig 2.8.0-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Sep 6 07:11:35 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: fontconfig ** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: fontconfig i386 maverick -- The command usage "fc-match Serif:lang=xx" where xx is any language not revealing correct results https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631241 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
