[Fontconfig] most fonts don't support English anymore???

Patrick Lam plam at MIT.EDU
Mon Jan 30 23:38:58 PST 2006


Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Why is suddenly "en" missing in the "lang" output for fonts
> like "Arial" and "FreeSans" which certainly support English?:
> 
> mfabian at magellan:~$ fc-list "Arial:style=Regular" family file style lang
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,thường,Arrunta:lang=aa|af|ar|ast|ava|ay|az|az-ir|be|bg|bi|bin|br|bua|ca|ce|ch|co|cs|cy|da|et|eu|fa|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl|gn|gv|he|ho|hu|ia|id|ie|ik|io|is|kaa|kk|kl|kum|ky|lb|lez|mg|mt|nb|nds|nn|no|oc|om|os|pl|rm|ru|se|sel|sh|sk|sma|smj|smn|so|sq|sr|sv|sw|tk|tn|tr|ts|tt|tyv|ug|uk|vo|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|yi|zu
> mfabian at magellan:~$ fc-list "FreeSans:style=Medium" family file style lang
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/FreeSans.ttf: FreeSans:style=Medium,navadno:lang=aa|ab|af|ast|ava|ay|az|ba|bam|be|bg|bi|bin|bn|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co|cs|cv|cy|da|eo|et|eu|fj|fo|fr|ful|fur|fy|ga|gd|gl|gn|gv|ha|haw|he|ho|hr|hu|hy|ia|id|ie|ik|io|is|kaa|ki|kk|kl|ku|kum|kv|kw|ky|la|lb|lez|lt|lv|mg|mh|mi|mk|mt|nb|nds|nn|no|ny|oc|om|os|pl|rm|ru|sah|sco|se|sel|sh|sk|sl|sma|smj|smn|so|sq|sr|sv|sw|syr|tg|tk|tn|tr|ts|tt|tyv|uk|uz|vo|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|yi|yo|zu
> mfabian at magellan:~$

I can't reproduce this.  There might have been corrupted caches at some 
point?

plam at plam:~/hacks/fontconfig$ fc-list "FreeSans:style=Medium" family 
file style lang
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf: 
FreeSans:style=Medium,navadno:lang=aa|af|ast|ava|ay|az|ba|bam|be|bg|bi|bin|bn|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co|cs|cv|cy|da|de|el|en|eo|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|ful|fur|fy|ga|gd|gl|gn|gv|ha|haw|he|ho|hr|hu|hy|ia|id|ie|ik|io|is|it|kaa|ki|kk|kl|ku|kum|kv|kw|ky|la|lb|lez|lt|lv|mg|mh|mi|mk|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|ny|oc|om|os|pl|pt|rm|ru|sah|sco|se|sel|sh|sk|sl|sma|smj|smn|sms|so|sq|sr|sv|sw|syr|tg|tk|tn|tr|ts|tt|tw|tyv|uk|uz|vi|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|yi|yo|zu

pat


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