[I'm forwarding this mail to the fontconfig list (with omissions),
since it is indeed a problem IMHO]
> [...] [I] found that fontconfig 2.8 no longer selects Emmentaler-20.
>
> I found that escaping the dash helps fc-match, but cannot get
> GnomeCanvas' text method to do the same. I just dropped
> emmentaler-20.otf in ~/.fonts and it's nicely in fc-list
>
> $ fc-scan ~/.fonts/emmentaler-20.otf
> Pattern has 19 elts (size 32)
> family: "Emmentaler-20"(s)
> familylang: "en"(s)
> style: "20"(s)
> stylelang: "en"(s)
> fullname: "Emmentaler-20"(s)
> fullnamelang: "en"(s)
> slant: 0(i)(s)
> weight: 100(i)(s)
> width: 100(i)(s)
> foundry: "unknown"(s)
> file: "/home/janneke/.fonts/emmentaler-20.otf"(s)
> [...]
> $ fc-match Emmentaler-20
> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
> $ fc-match Emmentaler\-20
> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
> $ fc-match Emmentaler\\-20
> emmentaler-20.otf: "Emmentaler-20" "20"
> $ fc-list | grep Emmentaler
> Emmentaler\-20:style=20
fontconfig's behaviour doesn't look right to me. Why gets a `-'
character replaced with `\-' in the font name? Additionally, there is
a discrepancy between the output of fc-scan and fc-list, since the
former doesn't show `\-'.
Werner
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