On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 08:57:42PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2016-02-03, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <i...@juanfra.info> wrote: > > >> Firefox 44 appears to have snuck in a change in font handling: > >> > >> Bitmap fonts are no longer used. At least that's what I see with > >> only the default fonts installed (xenocara defaults plus ghostscript > >> since that gets pulled in as a dependency). > > > > Search the string "font." in about:config. The text in bold are > > non-default values. Look if you have the file > > .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf. Firefox uses these about:config > > settings and fontconfig to select the fonts. > > All default values, no ~/.config/fontconfig/. > > > Open "ja.wikipedia.org", click with the secondary button of your mouse > > in any line of text and click in "Inspect Element". Click in > > "Inspector" and "Fonts". It will show which font is used to render > > that text. > > DejaVu Sans. (Which doesn't have glyphs for Japanese.) > > You are treating this like a bug report. That wasn't my intention.
I gave you those instructions because I've seen some web pages using a very weird fonts selection in the past and other people could compare the info with their browser. That's all :) > I assumed it was some conscious upstream change. (I see the same > on FreeBSD.) I don't consider it a problem, but I thought I'd bring > it up _before_ ports lock, because people always get worked up over > any Firefox changes. > > So am I to understand that this is not a general change in Firefox > font handling? > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
