[Fontconfig] fc-cache succeeds, but fc-list still gives empty result on Wine

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Sep 19 17:30:51 PDT 2011


On 09/19/11 19:57, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
>         <dir>WINDOWSFONTDIR</dir>

So, technically fontconfig is supposed to look in the windows font dir for
fonts.  And apparently it does, but by default Wine has no fonts there.  See
the first few paragraphs here:

  http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Fonts

One way to fix this would be to include /usr/share/fonts even on Windows.
It's harmless, right?

behdad


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