Dear list, I have Fontconfig 2.2.2, Xfree86 4.3.0, QT 3.2.3 and KDE 3.2.0 on Debian testing in an en_US.UTF-8 locale. My problem is that when the specified font does not contain Cyrillic characters, then Cyrillic characters get displayed with atrocious-looking, overspaced glyphs from a Chinese font that happens to contain some Cyrillic glyphs (see attached image), in spite of the fact that perfectly good Cyrillic fonts are installed on the system. The offending Chinese font seems to be either "AR PL SungtiL GB:style=Regular" or "AR PL KaitiM GB:style=Regular". Now since GTK behaves properly, this could maybe be considered a QT/KDE problem. Or alternatively, one could argue that the ugly Cyrillic glyphs have no business being in the Chinese font in the first place. But while waiting for this to be fixed on the QT/KDE or font side, I want to tell fontconfig one simple thing: "For Cyrillic, do not even consider using these Chinese fonts." Can this be accomplished in .fonts.conf, and could some kind soul tell me how? Further puzzling aspects of this: The same problem does not occur with Greek, even though the situation seems to be parallel to the Cyrillic case, with the two Chinese fonts containing some Greek glyphs. And neither "fc-list :lang=ru" nor "fc-list :lang=el" actually lists the Chinese fonts that based on visual appearance I identified as likely culprits. Thanks for your help, Stefan PS. What is the current official email address of the fontconfig mailing list: "fontconfig AT fontconfig DOT org" or "fontconfig AT freedesktop DOT org"? If both addresses are active, will posts sent to the one be visible to those subscribed to the other? -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: kedit.png Type: image/png Size: 25842 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/fontconfig/attachments/20040422/3e2a709f/kedit-0002.png
