[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 95232] New: metric-aliases: Alias Microsoft Sans Serif to Helvetica

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            Bug ID: 95232
           Summary: metric-aliases: Alias Microsoft Sans Serif to
                    Helvetica
           Product: fontconfig
           Version: 2.11
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: conf
          Assignee: fontconfig-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: arthur200126 at gmail.com
        QA Contact: freedesktop at behdad.org

MS Sans Serif, formerly "Helv" (interesting name, isn't it?) in Windows 1.x,
which went on to become "Microsoft Sans Serif" as a vector TrueType font, is a
proportional raster font which looks very much like Helvetica and Arial.

In mono's libgdiplus and System.Drawing.SystemFonts, the vector version
"Microsoft Sans Serif" is hard coded as default font, so it looks necessary to
address its usage by adding aliases. (I am not particularly interested in the
bitmaps.)

(There is also a bitmap called "MS Serif" ("Tms Rmn" in Windows 1.x) by
Microsoft, but MS was sane enough not to create two TrueType look-alikes for
Serif, and "Times New Roman" aliases are already there.)

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