Bug 2567103

Summary:	Default font check for Arabic and Japanese fails in Rawhide
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Williamson (Fedora) <rhbz>
Component:	fontconfig	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ajax, fonts-bugs, i18n-bugs, mclasen, mkasik, rstrode, suraj.ghimire7, tagoh
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Description Adam Williamson (Fedora) 2026-11-04 17:00:43 UTC

We have a 'default font check' test in openQA which checks default fonts are as expected. On Rawhide it currently fails on Arabic and Japanese installs. In both cases the issue is in the expected system-ui font: the result shows -Adwaita Sans, +Cantarell (not sure if that means it's meant to be Adwaita Sans but is Cantarell, or the other way around).

Reporting against freetype as I know that'll get it assigned to the right person.

See e.g. https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/5613403#step/check_default_fonts/30 and https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/5613407#step/check_default_fonts/32 .

Comment 1 Marek Kašík 2026-11-05 09:41:25 UTC

Hi, this seems more like a result produced by fontconfig. I'm reassigning this bug there.

Comment 2 Adam Williamson (Fedora) 2026-11-05 15:56:17 UTC

Agh, crap, you're right, I meant 'fontconfig' when I wrote/used 'freetype'. D'oh. :) Thanks!

Comment 3 Akira TAGOH 2026-11-10 05:55:37 UTC

Well, strictly speaking, it isn't something in fontconfig itself. but fontconfig config issue in some font packages.

Comment 4 Akira TAGOH 2026-11-10 07:51:56 UTC

I submitted two PRs for this:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/adwaita-fonts/pull-request/2
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/abattis-cantarell-fonts/pull-request/6

another one for google-noto-fonts may be needed.