[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1493481] New: Setting a preferred Sans Serif font does not seem to work

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1493481

            Bug ID: 1493481
           Summary: Setting a preferred Sans Serif font does not seem to
                    work
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 27
         Component: fonts-tweak-tool
          Assignee: tagoh(a)redhat.com
          Reporter: mfabian(a)redhat.com
        QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, kent.neo(a)gmail.com,
                    petersen(a)redhat.com, pwu(a)redhat.com, tagoh(a)redhat.com



Created attachment 1328361
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1328361&action=edit
generated ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/000-fontstweak-ezfc.conf

I am testing with Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-20170910.n.0.iso
installed in qemu using:


nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 qemu-kvm -machine pc-i440fx-2.4 -enable-kvm -global
qxl.ram_size=1x1024 -m 2048M -smp 2 -drive
file=./Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-20170910.n.0.iso.qcow2,index=0,media=disk,cache=unsafe
-localtime -serial
file:/tmp/qemu-Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-20170910.n.0.iso.qcow2-output.log
-name Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-20170910.n.0.iso.qcow2 -cdrom
/local/mfabian/iso/Fedora-27/Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-20170910.n.0.iso
-boot c -spice port=6002,disable-ticketing,streaming-video=off -vga qxl
-display vnc=:6 -net nic -net
user,hostname=Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-20170910.n.0.iso.qcow2,hostfwd=tcp::5558-:22
-monitor stdio -usb -usbdevice mouse -soundhw all

Versions of fontconfig and fonts-tweak-tool are:

fontconfig-2.12.5-1.fc27.x86_64
fonts-tweak-tool-0.3.2-15.fc27.x86_64

In the first tab of fonts-tweak-tool I have added the languages German
(Germany) - Deutsch, Japanese - 日本語, English (Great Britain),
English (USA) and French (France) - Français.

For Japanese, I choose “VL Gothic” for “Sans Serif” in Aliases.

For German I choose “FreeSans” for “Sans Serif” and “FreeSerif” for
“Serif” in Aliases.

The generated ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/000-fontstweak-ezfc.conf
file is attached.

But that does not seem  to have any effect. I still get  this:



mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 fc-match 
sans-serif
VL-PGothic-Regular.ttf: "VL Pゴシック" "regular"
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 fc-match  sans
VL-PGothic-Regular.ttf: "VL Pゴシック" "regular"
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$

So I still get “VL PGothic”, not “VL Gothic”. Choosing any other font instead
of  “VL Gothic” doesn’t work either, no matter what I choose I continue
to get “VL PGothic”.

And for German,  English, and French I always get “DejaVu Sans”, no matter
what I choose in fonts-tweak-tool:

[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 fc-match  sans
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 fc-match 
sans-serif
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 fc-match 
serif
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$

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[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1493481] Setting a preferred Sans Serif font does not seem to work

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1493481

Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |mfabian(a)redhat.com



--- Comment #1 from Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)redhat.com&gt; ---
Tagoh San told me that one has to set the :lang=.. parameter.

This does indeed work:

[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 fc-match 
sans:lang=de-DE
FreeSans.ttf: "FreeSans" "Mittel"
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 fc-match 
sans:lang=de
FreeSans.ttf: "FreeSans" "Mittel"
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ 

Running a test program like pango-view in de_DE.UTF-8 locale seems to work
as well:


[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ cat test-file.txt 
Hello
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 pango-view
--font="Sans Serif" test-file.txt &
[6] 15307
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ grep fonts /proc/15307/maps 
7f8ca9b47000-7f8ca9cd4000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 1201299                   
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSans.ttf
[mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ 


So it looks like I am just confused and that the locale does
not influence fc-match is not really a bug.

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[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1493481] Setting a preferred Sans Serif font does not seem to work

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1493481

Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2017-09-20 06:20:03



--- Comment #2 from Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)redhat.com&gt; ---
Closing as NOTABUG because it does seem to work as designed.

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