Japanese Font Antialiasing - Where did it go?

[Matt Jones]

Hi - I just noticed that the font antialiasing seems to have stopped
working for Japanese fonts. Admittedly, I haven't been using japanese on
rawhide for about 3 weeks, but I have no clue what's going wrong.

When i run LANG=ja_JP gedit i get nasty non-antialiased text, which used
to not happen. Glancing at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, I see some comment
about disabling antialiasing for korean, japanese and chinese fonts, yet
when I re-enable (change a false to a true) it via that xml file,
nothing changes.

I've recently installed some new fonts, but none should affect japanese
language support (all dealing with Mathematica 5).

Does any one else get this problem (if thats what it is) - you can run
'LANG=ja_JP gedit' if you have ja fonts installed to check - and has
anyone figured out what's going on?

Matt Jones

[Warren Togami]

Matt Jones wrote:
>  Hi - I just noticed that the font antialiasing seems to have stopped
>  working for Japanese fonts. Admittedly, I haven't been using japanese on
>  rawhide for about 3 weeks, but I have no clue what's going wrong.
>  
>  When i run LANG=ja_JP gedit i get nasty non-antialiased text, which used
>  to not happen. Glancing at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, I see some comment
>  about disabling antialiasing for korean, japanese and chinese fonts, yet
>  when I re-enable (change a false to a true) it via that xml file,
>  nothing changes.
>  
>  I've recently installed some new fonts, but none should affect japanese
>  language support (all dealing with Mathematica 5).
>  
>  Does any one else get this problem (if thats what it is) - you can run
>  'LANG=ja_JP gedit' if you have ja fonts installed to check - and has
>  anyone figured out what's going on?
>  
>  Matt Jones 
I have noticed this in gaim too.  Earlier all fonts were looking good, 
but at some point in rawhide AA of fonts stopped working.

Warren

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:00, Matt Jones wrote:
>  Hi - I just noticed that the font antialiasing seems to have stopped
>  working for Japanese fonts. Admittedly, I haven't been using japanese on
>  rawhide for about 3 weeks, but I have no clue what's going wrong.
>  
>  When i run LANG=ja_JP gedit i get nasty non-antialiased text, which used
>  to not happen. Glancing at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, I see some comment
>  about disabling antialiasing for korean, japanese and chinese fonts, yet
>  when I re-enable (change a false to a true) it via that xml file,
>  nothing changes. 
See:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97337

It's a fontconfig bug, but hard to fix without updating to devel
code, so I've worked around it for the fonts we ship.

The package with the fix had been sitting around for a month because
of some problems I encountered before with Perl include paths
and the documentation; I've thrown it into the build system again and
hopefully it will build this time.

Regards,
						Owen