Bug 126268 – media-libs/fontconfig-2.3.2 should use corefonts aliases for Helvetica, Times, Courier

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andy Crook 2006-03-15 02:11:20 UTC]

By default fontconfig 2.3.2 uses Nimbus* for all this aliases. It leads to ugliness in non-latin characters if you use Helvetica font for example. Proposed patch changes aliases as they were in previous version (2.2.3).

[Comment 1 Andy Crook 2006-03-15 02:13:19 UTC]

Created attachment 82191 [details]
patch to fonts.conf.in

[Comment 2 Andy Crook 2006-03-15 02:13:50 UTC]

Created attachment 82192 [details, diff]
patch for fonts.conf.in

[Comment 3 Andy Crook 2006-03-15 02:15:59 UTC]

Created attachment 82193 [details]
new ebuild

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2006-03-16 10:02:07 UTC]

define 'ugliness in non-latin' ?

[Comment 5 Andy Crook 2006-03-17 06:42:47 UTC]

For example in my configuration all russian characters look 2 sizes smaller than latin ones. Latin is 10 and russian looks like 8.

My locale is:
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US
LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[Comment 6 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2007-09-04 02:59:50 UTC]

in fontconfig-2.4.2's 60-latin.conf Times, Verdana, and Courier New are preferred before their Nimbus counterparts.