X-Debbugs-Cc: konomikit...@gmail.com Hi Konomi,
Quoting Konomi Kitten (2022-04-08 21:21:08) > Currently if you have fonts-droid-fallback installed and run a program > via wine that uses both Japanese characters and Latin characters you > will get tofu characters for English (squares) [Broken > Characters.png]. Removing the fonts-droid-fallback package fixes this > problem [Working Characters.png]. This seems to occur because the font > provided in fonts-droid-fallback (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf) lacks > Latin characters. This can easily be observed with Font Viewer by > selecting Lorem Ipsum [Lorem Ipsum.png]. To me this sounds like an issue in Wine, not in this font. I mean, if an application chooses to load a _fallback_ font without first trying other fonts that contains Latin1 characters, then it sounds like that application is not really using that font as intended. > First of all Google has abandoned the droid font [2] so it could be > argued that the font should be removed from Debian. I am not convinced: It is true that Google no longer need that font, but that fact in itself is not a reason for Debian to stop using it. If you meant to imply some underlying reason for Debian avoiding the Droid font, then please elaborate. > Another option is to go back to older versions of the font where Latin > characters were present at some point in time Google removed a > significant amount of characters from the droid font. I believe this > change occurred in commit 034b20c102ee2e7ec1da09e2b080f35be4a5cf54 > [3]. So going back to commit 0abd8a79cc19658305dae81e3eca32b45f268f96 > [4] would restore many of the missing characters. The purpose of Droid Sans Fallback is to provide a *lighweight* fallback. If you want rich coverage, then instead use Noto. If you want medium coverage, then instead use a subset of Noto. If an application cannot choose another font, then... That's a bug in that application, and it seems very wrong to me to change the font or every other package to try play along with that. Sorry if I am missing something here - then please try elaborate. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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