Bug 561246

Summary:	non-latin fontconfig files should extend prefix range below 65
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Qianqian Fang <fangqq>
Component:	fontpackages	Assignee:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	fonts-bugs, kcao, nicolas.mailhot, tagoh
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Description Qianqian Fang 2010-02-03 06:55:23 UTC

the Fedora fontconfig packaging guideline [1] limits non-latin fontconfig file prefix numbers to 65~69. This eliminates the possibilities to overwrite the upstream 65-nonlatin settings using per-font-config settings.

I suggest extending this range to 60~69, or even 50~69 for non-latin fonts, to avoid the difficulties such as reported in Bug#476459. See related discussions in [2].


[1] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fontpackages.git?p=fontpackages.git;a=blob;f=fontconfig-templates/fontconfig-priorities.txt
[2] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-03-15 14:21:35 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
Changing version to '13'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2010-07-04 07:48:18 UTC

It is possible to order cjk fonts without extending this range, and the range was defined because too many cjk fonts inblude bad non-cjk glyphs, so it is not going to change unless fontconfig finaly grows a robust way to blacklist parts of a font