Thanks, Paul. I've created a bug report to keep track of this (https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17748), and taken the liberty of adding you to CC. We'll need to cherry-pick the fix for R 3.6.3 in Fedora 31.
Iñaki On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 21:15, Paul Murrell <p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > Hi > > Thanks for your input on this Iñaki and Nicolas. > > I am starting testing an R fix for this problem today. > > As suggested, the plan is to allow the R user to specify a font family > other than "symbol" for plotmath output (or, more generally, in R > parlance, for 'font=5' or 'fontface=5') on a Cairo-based graphics device. > > Paul > > > On 27/03/20 11:30 pm, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > 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 > > -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
