[Bug 22215] New: Arial Narrow fonts are inaccessible to applications

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22215

           Summary: Arial Narrow fonts are inaccessible to applications
           Product: fontconfig
           Version: 2.6
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: library
        AssignedTo: keithp at keithp.com
        ReportedBy: belegdol at gmail.com
         QAContact: freedesktop at behdad.org
                CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list at redhat.com


Originally reported in Red Hat bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=466678
Beginning with the release of Fedora 7 in May 2007, fonts belonging to Arial
Narrow group began to be merged with ordinary Arial - there was no longer a
separate Arial Narrow family in the font selector, only Arial. The narrow
styles were supposed to be added to the Arial family, but the problem is that
it is impossible to select the Narrow glyphs afterwards. With LANG=C, the
situation is the least broken:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=347200
Regular narrow can be selected, but narrow italic, narrow bold and narrow bold
italic cannot. With LANG=pl_PL:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=320146
even narrow regular is gone. Also, please note that the styles are displayed in
pretty random languages.
fc-list seems to list all eight styles fine:
$ fc-list | grep Arial | sort
Arial
Black:style=Normalny,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
Arial,Arial
Narrow:style=Kursywa,Narrow,Cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Italic,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,Itálico,Курсив,İtalik,Poševno,Etzana
Arial,Arial
Narrow:style=Normalny,Narrow,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
Arial,Arial Narrow:style=Pogrubiona kursywa,Narrow,Negreta cursiva,tučné
kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Bold Italic,Negrita
Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto
Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Negrito Itálico,Полужирный
Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,Krepko poševno,Lodi
etzana
Arial,Arial
Narrow:style=Pogrubiony,Narrow,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Bold,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,Lodia
Arial:style=Kursywa,Cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Italic,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,Itálico,Курсив,İtalik,Poševno,nghiêng,Etzana
Arial:style=Normalny,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,thường,Arrunta
Arial:style=Pogrubiona kursywa,Negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett
Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Bold Italic,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu
Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet
Kursiv,Negrito Itálico,Полужирный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet
Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,Krepko poševno,nghiêng đậm,Lodi etzana
Arial:style=Pogrubiony,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Bold,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,đậm,Lodia

The only applications that seem to be able to distinguish between the narrow
glyphs are firefox and KDE's font installer.
Please let me know if I can provide any other information.


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