Description of problem: From Akira's font status page [1] it is observed that for language Malayalam, serif-font is defaulted to Meera, while more appropriate font is Rachana (both from smc-fonts package). Based on the discussion [2], it is agreed to substitute Rachana as the preferred serif font in fontconfig file 65-nonlatin.conf [1] https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/status/ [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fonts@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/6JXNPFG5RUS7OFUT3SY72GDIAJF3R2UC/ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Meera is default serif font for Malayalam language. Expected results: Rachana should be default serif font for Malayalam language. Additional info: Change 'Meera' to 'Rachana' under 'serif' family in 65-nonlatin.conf
just fixed in rawhide but will push this for f29 later.
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Sorry that it took me a while (quite some!) to check this again. According for status of F31 at [1], the default serif for Malayalam language is `FreeSerif`. Would it be possible to fix this and change to `Rachana`? [1] https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/status/31.html
Well, we don't necessarily have all of fonts installed by default. particularly for serif. we may need to have two tables to see the font assignments at least. 1) default fonts installed against @fonts 2) default fonts installed against langpacks. There doesn't have to be different for sans-serif between them. otherwise that is a bug. for monospace, maybe. for serif, there should be different. but if something isn't desired after installing certain langpacks, we need to fix it.
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Closed by accident
Actually oops this one was not closed by accident! But moving to 31 based on the recent ongoing discussion.
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The bug can be reproducible in fedora 33, so moving it to fedora 33.
We don't have all serif fonts installed by default and we have Rachana font instead of Meera fonts for serif in 65-nonlatin.conf. So actually this has already been fixed. but just need to install smc-rachana-fonts to test. There are no plan to install all serif fonts by default.
Agreeing with Akira, necessary systems changes are already made in `65-nonlatin.conf`, so we could consider this issue resolved. May I close the bug report?
Closing. thanks.