[Bug 1409348] Some fonts (such as Droid Sans) don' t work anymore on some websites with Firefox
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409348
--- Comment #3 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> ---
It's almost certainly a bug in the Firefox font handling code
Fedora uses a lot of substitution rules in fontconfig, in particular for Droid
They've been vetted by the fontconfig upstream maintainer before deployment and
haven't changed for years (and the open sans package didn't follow those rules
last time I checked leading to problems)
However, because they are advanced and complex, they've tripped implementation
bugs in apps that do stuff with fonts in the past (for example QT) when
upstream didn't implement properly all the fontconfig substitution logic. IIRC
Suse and Ubuntu do not push fontconfig as hard as Fedora, so they won't hit the
same application bugs.
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