Around 10 o'clock on Jul 12, Owen Taylor wrote: > Can you give a concrete example? As Keith said, if you specify > a font explicitly, you'll get that font for every character > it contains. I thought the problem mentioned was that applications were using lang to restrict the presented list of available fonts in some context. I know Mozilla does this when selecting preferred fonts for language groups; I can believe that other apps also do this; perhaps we should find a way to deprecate this activity. The Mozilla behaviour was inherited from the core font listing techniques and so is not specific to it's interactions with fontconfig. -keith