Please explain what the font you are expecting to see and what the font is actually selected. it's hard to figure out what's going on there. try: $ fc-match sans-serif or $ fc-match sans-serif:lang=ug perhaps. or whatever the alias font you are suspecting. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Eagle Burkut <eagle.burkut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Please be aware that no one can tell you the better answer without the >> details. this is a rough answer for the rough question. if you aren't >> comfortable with it, please give us what you did, what happened and >> what you were expected. otherwise there are no way to see what's wrong >> in fontconfig. >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Eagle Burkut <eagle.burkut@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > So I am here to ask your help. I have couple of questions: >> > >> > (1) Why does the fontconfig select the font poorly here, even selecting >> > a >> > font which does not support the required code points and or glyphs? >> >> The possible reason is, 1) there are no better fonts against the >> query. which covers the code points in ug.orth. 2) the font pattern in >> the query is wrong. 3) ug.orth has a bug. > > > 1) Yes, there is already a better font available. > 2) Probably > 3) ug.orth has no bug. we have recently fixed it. > >> >> >> > (2) Is the any way to tell/force fontconfig to use a font for the given >> > language environment / writing system / scripts? >> >> You can put the following config to $HOME/.fonts.conf: > > > The problem starts immediately when you boot your PC with CD to install the > system. The installation screen itself is very buggy. I think it is because > of the bugs in the fontconfig itself. > > Before you finish installing the system, there is no way to put these files > into those folder (which does not exist at the time you are installing the > system from the CD). > >> >> >> <?xml version="1.0"?> >> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "/etc/fonts/fonts.dtd"> >> <fontconfig> >> <alias> >> <family>serif</family> >> <prefer> >> <family>Your Font Family Name</family> >> </prefer> >> </alias> >> <alias> >> <family>sans-serif</family> >> <prefer> >> <family>Your Font Family Name</family> >> </prefer> >> </alias> >> <alias> >> <family>monospace</family> >> <prefer> >> <family>Your Font Family Name</family> >> </prefer> >> </alias> >> </fontconfig> >> >> or if you want to use your font for Uyghur only: >> <match> >> <test name="lang" compare="contains"> >> <string>ug</string> >> </test> >> <test name="family"> >> <string>sans-serif</string> >> </test> >> <edit name="family" mode="prepend"> >> <string>Your Font Family Name</string> >> </edit> >> </match> >> >> and similar for serif and monospace too. >> >> -- >> Akira TAGOH -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
