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       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  The command usage "fc-match Serif:lang=xx" where xx is any language
  not revealing correct results

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: fontconfig

  To find out what font the fontconfig matches to a generic, say Sans,
  for a language, say English-US, I can use fc-match command in
  following two ways:

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 && fc-match Sans

  fc-match Sans:lang=en_US.UTF-8

  Of the above two it is usually the second I use for finding what fonts
  are set to Sans, Mono and Serif for different languages.

  Now in freshly installed Ubuntu 10.10 - Beta platform / Gnome Desktop/
  I find that the second form fails to reveal correct matching only in
  case of Serif generic for any language.

  I have shown comparison of the above two forms of command usage -
  Sans, Mono and Serif respectively for languages en-US, ta_IN (Tamil),
  si_LK (Sinhala) and hi_IN (Hindi).

  As shown by the boxed in (with red) parts  , the above 2nd form of
  usage on left terminal yields match to Serif for each language wrongly
  as "Lohit Tamil" font whereas on the right side the first form if
  usage reveals correct matches.

  By checking out effects of changing fonts in GEDIT, I have found that
  actual matching is correct as revealed by the first of the above two
  forms. So it is the second syntax that is affected only for Serif.

  Since I noticed another issue with newly introduced 90-ttf-tamil-
  fonts.conf (ref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-
  fonts/+bug/630269 ) I got to wonder whether the newly introduced
  90-ttf-<language>-fonts.conf (wherein <language> to mean Tamil, Hindi
  etc ) files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail cause these problems. I removed
  the "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-ttf-tamil-fonts.conf ->
  /etc/fonts/conf.avail/90-ttf-tamil-fonts.conf" link first. Sure enough
  "Lohit Tamil" changed to "Lohit Punjabi" in the above mentioned wrong
  results. Then removing the link for Punjabi, the wrong result changes
  to another indic language font and so on. Removing such "90-ttf-"
  links for all indic languages restores normalcy for the fc-match
  command usage with ":lang=" element !

  So it appears the bug arises from the conf files whose file name start
  with "90-ttf-"

  K. Sethu

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: fontconfig 2.8.0-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Sep  6 07:11:35 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: fontconfig

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