Bug 1766971

Summary: Default monospace font Amharic is weird, makes gnome-terminal look weird
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mike FABIAN <mfabian>
Component: fontconfigAssignee: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 31CC: ajax, caillon+fedoraproject, fonts-bugs, gnome-sig, i18n-bugs, john.j5live, mclasen, mfabian, pnemade, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, tagoh
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Description Mike FABIAN 2019-10-30 11:51:43 UTC
Created attachment 1630570 [details]
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[mfabian@localhost ~]$ fc-match monospace:lang=de
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
[mfabian@localhost ~]$ fc-match monospace:lang=ja
NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc: "Noto Sans Mono CJK JP" "Regular"
[mfabian@localhost ~]$ fc-match monospace:lang=en
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
[mfabian@localhost ~]$ fc-match monospace:lang=am
FreeSerif.ttf: "FreeSerif" "Regular"
[mfabian@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 31 (Thirty One)
[mfabian@localhost ~]$ 

Maybe there is no monospace font for Amharic ☹

This makes gnome-terminal look weird in am_ET.UTF-8 locale, see screenshot.

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2019-11-08 10:16:53 UTC
Sure. so what do you suggest? as you know we have own fontconfig config in each font packages to give a hint for substitution. this result would simply means there are no monospaced font packages which have Amharic coverage, or which provide a fontconfig config at least. the kind of this issue should goes into font packages.

Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2019-11-08 10:23:36 UTC
BTW that wired rendering should be another issue. maybe relevant to new Pango with Harfbuzz.

Comment 3 Mike FABIAN 2020-09-23 11:41:54 UTC
I cannot reproduce this on F33 anymore.