Dear list, I am using fontconfig 2.2.0, GNOME 2.2 and KDE 3.1. When I set the display font in a GNOME application on the one hand and in a KDE application on the other hand to the exact same setting (e.g., Bitstream Vera Mono), the two applications exhibit different strategies for supplying monospace Cyrillic characters that are not contained in the selected display font. The GNOME application (gedit for test purposes) will take Cyrillic characters from a monospace font (in this case, some Courier-like font that looks quite different from Bistream Vera Mono): http://staff.washington.edu/baums/gnome.png which is fine, while the KDE application (tested kedit and konsole) gets a proportional font and apparently tries to force monospacing onto it, which results in glyphs that are spaced so far apart that they end up taking much more space than the Latin-script glyphs (and being so ugly that this has to be considered a bug for aesthetic reasons alone): http://staff.washington.edu/baums/kedit.png The result is especially gruesome in konsole, where we get some weird overlap making the Cyrillic text illegible: http://staff.washington.edu/baums/konsole-1.png and where scrolling down will lead to screen corruption: http://staff.washington.edu/baums/konsole-2.png Is this something that should or can be fixed at the fontconfig level, or does the bug lie with QT / KDE and should be brought to those good people's attention? Regards, Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington
