Bug 2184872

Summary:	User installed Japanese fonts override system fonts when substituting glyphs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	bztdlinux
Component:	fontconfig	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	37	CC:	ajax, fonts-bugs, gnome-sig, i18n-bugs, mclasen, pnemade, rstrode, sandmann, tagoh
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Description bztdlinux 2023-04-06 04:34:06 UTC

Description of problem:
When installing a Japanese font locally (using gnome font viewer, which effectively copies to ~/.local/share/fonts/), with the default fontconfig, all kana in the system uses that font.

However, it only affects certain applications. Firefox (rpm) and Inkscape (flatpak) is affected, but gwrite is not.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fontconfig-2.14.0-3.fc37.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the following font: http://font.sumomo.ne.jp/fontdata-c2157415/k-font.zip
2. Unzip and install by double-clicking the font in nautilus and clicking install.
3. Restart Firefox or Inkscape and paste "です” in a field with sans-serif or system-ui font

Actual results:
Text appears with the new font

Expected results:
Text appears with the normal system font

Additional info:
Running pango-view, e.g. the following, works fine and selects a reasonable font (Droid Sans Japanese):
FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="system-ui" -t です | grep family

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2023-05-30 10:41:19 UTC

Well, it seems the dead link.  What's the family name in that font?

If you are sure it happens with system-ui generic alias and then result is different between fc-match and applications, you should report it to those applications first.
Strictly speaking, they may have more additional parameters to query a font. you may need to try it in the same condition. otherwise the result could be different.

Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2023-10-30 08:32:12 UTC

Does this still happen on f38 or f39? there are nothing detailed information to take a look at this. it is quite hard to fix.  This may be closed shortly otherwise.

Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2023-11-23 01:38:10 UTC

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Comment 4 Akira TAGOH 2023-11-27 08:30:18 UTC

Please reopen if you still see this issue. Thanks.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2024-03-27 04:25:08 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 120 days