[Bug 676253] [abattis-cantarell-fonts] causes tiny characters of desktop fonts

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--- Comment #8 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> 2011-02-17 06:08:43 EST ---
fontconfig should fallback to dejavu if cantarell is missing some glyphs.

Now, there are many reasons why it may not work :
1. someone decided to install cantarell, without installing dejavu (nothing to
fallback to)
2. some software stacks may forcibly disable fontconfig fallback (web people
like to do this because they prefer CSS fallback to system fallback – except
CSS rules for i18n are usually junk)
3. cantarell declares it includes glyphs but does not really (this may cause ??
symbols) → a bug in the fonts

Anyway, I think the current packaging guidelines are fine, but art people need
to learn that High priority LGC (latin Greek Cyrillic) fonts mean fonts with
decent Latin Greek Cyrillic coverage and not just ASCII fonts. If that's not
clear enough, change the guidelines to forbid fonts that do not provide at
least mes-2 or mes-3 coverage to appear above 59 priority in sans (serif and
mono are less critical)

http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf

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