[Fontconfig] fontconfig: Branch 'fc-2_4-keithp' - 6 commits

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:13 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le samedi 02 septembre 2006 à 14:55 -0700, Keith Packard a écrit :
> > diff-tree db970d3596fbbc75f652f1a9fe7f7ce98e651ad2 (from
> > 3bb1812f0d173b153415e2191ecdd27a95fc4b05)
> > Author: Keith Packard <keithp at neko.keithp.com>
> > Date:   Fri Sep 1 21:12:44 2006 -0700
> > 
> >     Prefer Bitstream Vera to DejaVu families.
> >     
> >     DejaVu is a modified version of Bitstream Vera that covers
> > significantly
> >     more languages, but does so with spotty quality, lacking hinting
> > for many
> >     glyphs, especially for the synthesized serif oblique face. Use
> > Bitstream
> >     Vera (where installed). 
> 
> This change is causing bad rendering (missing glyphs) for people using
> KDE / QT with czech (as reported on
> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=25648 ).

Given the broken way Qt uses fontconfig, I'm not surprised.  A few weeks
ago, my fontconfig config file to make DejaVu LGC override Bitstream
Vera caused s p a c e d   o u t monospace fonts in KDE.

-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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