[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 14084] Some erroneous glyphs in DejaVu Sans Mono 2.21

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14084


Adrian Bocaniciu <a.bocaniciu at computer.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |NOTOURBUG




--- Comment #5 from Adrian Bocaniciu <a.bocaniciu at computer.org>  2008-01-28 10:06:13 PST ---
Eventually, I have seen that the bug does not exist, or, more precisely, it is
not a bug of the DejaVu fonts, so I am sorry for the wrong report. 
Nevertheless, I will explain what happened, because others might be confused by
the same weird behaviour.  When I have installed the DejaVu fonts, this action
has also updated the global font cache in /var/cache/fontconfig.  However, I
had previously installed some fonts privately for my user and I was not aware
of the fact that if you use the konqueror menu to install a private font, this
has the side-effect of creating a local font cache hidden in ~/.fontconfig and
then the local cache overrides the global cache.  When I installed DejaVu as
administrator, the users' caches became invalid, so probably this lead to the
strange behaviour that I have witnessed, i.e. all seemed to work OK, except
that a few glyphs in Sans Mono were wrong.  Removing .fontconfig or running
fc-cache as the user made the fonts behave as they should.


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