[Fontconfig] CJK Locale Inconsistencies.

[Pat Suwalski]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone might have some insight into a fontconfig 
problem I'm having. I'm hoping to solve it without actually changing 
code, but that is always a possibility.

I installed an Arphic Chinese font. In the en_US.UTF-8 locale it looks 
great, because programs like Firefox will use DejaVu for the latin text 
and only use the Chinese characters from the Arphic font as needed.

In the zh_CN.UTF-8 locale it seems that the Arphic font magically has 
priority. Pages in Firefox look terrible because it uses the cruddy 
monotype latin characters from the Arphic font.

To work around this I made a strong binding for DejaVu Sans. This worked 
well throughout, except it broke one program: Flash. I guess Flash isn't 
smart enough to fall through font matches. It would attempt to get a 
Chinese character, look in DejaVu Sans, not find it, and then not fall 
through. So, it would draw a missing character box.

My most recent approach has been to actually edit the Arphic font, and 
remove everything except the CJK glyphs. Then, without specifying a 
strong binding for DejaVu, everything seems to work well in both 
locales. However, this is a rather drastic approach that could have very 
bad side effects in all sorts of places, like printing.

So, my question is, is there a way to make fontconfig behave in the 
Chinese locale as it does in the English one?

Thanks,
--Pat