[Fontconfig] Query for unknown font with spacing=mono returns sans-serif font

[Christian Weiske]

Hello,


> >> But poppler also sends the hint to fontconfig that it wants a
> >> monospaced font ("$ fc-match RFont3:spacing=mono").
> >> Shouldn't fontconfig use that hint and return a monospaced font?
> >>  
> > 
> > In theory, yes. We may need similar things for :spacing=charcell and
> > :spacing=dual too.    
> 
> Should that be solved with a configuration file like the following
> (that is shipped by default with fontconfig), or should that be
> handled internally somehow?

This problem has been fixed in 2.13.96 with 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/merge_requests/195

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Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Weiske

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