Description of problem: All of detailed information is available on my post at the fonts list: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fonts/2010-March/001117.html binding="same" in the fontconfig config file prevents to apply the rule for the specific language only properly. As a result, fonts is used for non-targetted languages and it may gives different look and feel in some cases. I'd propose to get rid of binding="same" from: 66-lohit-devanagari.conf
lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-6.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-6.fc13
lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-6.fc14
lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-6.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update lohit-devanagari-fonts'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-6.fc13
Testing result: # rpm -q lohit-devanagari-fonts lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-6.fc13.noarch # fc-match monospace:lang=en DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" # fc-match monospace:lang=en-us DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" # fc-match monospace:lang=hi Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=hi-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=mr Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=mr-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=kok Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=kok-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=ks PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=ks-in PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=ks@devanagari DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" # fc-match monospace:lang=ks-in@devanagari PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=sd PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=sd-in PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=sd@devanagari DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" # fc-match monospace:lang=sd-in@devanagari PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=mai Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=mai-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=ne Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=ne-np Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=sa Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match monospace:lang=sa-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=en DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book" # fc-match serif:lang=en-us DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book" # fc-match serif:lang=hi Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=hi-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=mr Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=mr-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=kok Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=kok-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=ks PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=ks-in PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=ks@devanagari DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book" # fc-match serif:lang=ks-in@devanagari PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=sd PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=sd-in PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=sd@devanagari DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book" # fc-match serif:lang=sd-in@devanagari PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=mai Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=mai-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=ne Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=ne-np Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=sa Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match serif:lang=sa-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" Since lohit-devanagari-fonts doesn't provide any rules for monospace and serif, this is just a kind of FYI. # fc-match sans:lang=en DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" # fc-match sans:lang=en-us DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" # fc-match sans:lang=hi Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=hi-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=mr Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=mr-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=kok Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=kok-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=ks PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=ks-in PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=ks@devanagari DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" # fc-match sans:lang=ks-in@devanagari PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=sd PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=sd-in PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=sd@devanagari DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" # fc-match sans:lang=sd-in@devanagari PakType_Naqsh.ttf: "PakType Naqsh" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=mai Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=mai-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=ne Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=ne-np Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=sa Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" # fc-match sans:lang=sa-in Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular" Looking at the above result, there seems some issues here. * paktype-fonts appears because it doesn't have the locale-specific overrides rule. * fontconfig doesn't take care of the difference of ll and ll@scriptname. * most rules in this config file matches any of the above. * fontconfig says Lohit Devanagari supports Bihari and Bhojpuri though, no rules for that. Last two are issues in lohit-devanagari-fonts. though it's separate issues with this however. Anyway, *this* issue itself seems gone with the fix though.
lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-6.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.