[Bug 670615] font autoprovides can be a bit overzealous

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--- Comment #7 from Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 2011-01-20 14:02:45 EST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Maybe we should just not automatically add any lang= provides (or requires) if
> > the orthography is the latin alphabet?
> 
> This is a very bad idea :
> 
> 1. all latin scripts are not limited to ASCII

Sure. Perhaps then just weed out anything that fontconfig claims the
orthography is just ASCII? We can reasonably make the assumption that the
system will have fonts with ASCII coverage.

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