On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 12:25, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net> wrote: > > <snip> > > R brought this all on itself by hardcoding a Windows-only “Symbol” font > family name in its default conf. Linux systems are UTF-8 by default for > ~20 years now, they don’t need the forcing of magic font families to > handle symbols not present in the 8-bit legacy Windows encodings. > > The actual effect of this conf is not the selection of font files with > special and unusual symbols. It is to priorize fonts that match the > "Symbol" magic name. And those fonts are few and crumbling on Linux > systems, because no one has needed to bother with them since Linux > switched to UTF-8 last millenium. > > Just stop using “Symbol” in R and things will work a lot better. > Alternatively, prepare to maintain the “Symbol” aliasing stack in > fontconfig (and fight with wine for it), because *no* *one* *else* > *cares* about this legacy Windows-specific stuff.
So, in the light of Nicolas' input (thanks!), I think that font selection should be fixed upstream in R. I'd be happy to put all this together in R's bugzilla, but I don't have an account. Could someone please invite me? Iñaki ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
