This mailing list is being very slow for me, and I'm seeing the responses in the online archives long before I'm receiving the emails. So I'll respond now anyway. First, a problem I noticed when upgrading: confdir.sgml.in isn't getting added to the list of files to include in the tarball created by doing "make dist". This causes compilation problems when using said tarball. I don't know my way around automake that well, but it seems to me that this solves the problem: --- fontconfig/configure.in 2003-06-26 04:19:10.000000000 -0400 +++ fontconfig-work/configure.in 2003-10-25 15:08:33.000000000 -0400 @@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ fc-list/Makefile fc-match/Makefile doc/Makefile +doc/confdir.sgml doc/version.sgml test/Makefile fontconfig.spec Thanks for the responses, and I think I have a better idea of how this all works. Keith Packard's suggestion of adding this to local.conf: <!-- set desired language if unset --> <match target="pattern"> <test compare="eq" name="lang" qual="all" > <string>unset</string> </test> <edit name="lang" > <string>en</string> <string>ja</string> </edit> </match> works perfectly as expected when my locale is unset. If I do have LANG set to en_US.UTF-8 there's no change, of course, since fontconfig looks for languages supporting "en," or possibly "en_US." I haven't tried Keith's other suggestion, and I haven't been able to get Owen Taylor's suggestion to change the behavior at all. If I upgrade to CVS or 2.2.90 and change Owen's suggestion from <test compare="eq" name="lang"><string>en</string></test> ... to <test compare="contains" name="lang"><string>en</string></test> ... then applications (gucharmap, gedit, etc.) start preferring to use Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho for Roman characters as well, over all the the English fonts that appear first in "fc-match --sort." I don't really understand why, though. I'll look into the strong binding suggestion. John Thacker
