403647 - Linux fonts messed up with package wqy-bitmap-fonts installed.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Attachment: Good

Fresh Fedora Core 8 install, fonts look great. Install the package wqy-bitmap-fonts-0.8.1-8.fc8.noarch.rpm (part of FC8) and the fonts in Firefox go all goofy. Looks like we pick a fixed bitmap font for every font, or something. See screenshots.

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Attachment: Bad

Comment 2

[Mike Schroepfer]

Setting P2 to investigate

Comment 3

[Stuart Parmenter]

cc'ing people who know our linux text code...

does that package change your fontconfig defaults?

Comment 4

[Stuart Parmenter]

jst: is this package installed by default?

Comment 5

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

Check default fonts with "fc-match -v sans" and "fc-match -v sans-serif".

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> jst: is this package installed by default?

No, it's not installed by default, or at least it wasn't for me. I installed it when tracking down an unrelated font issues (nothing to do with Firefox at all) and then realized the fonts in Firefox were screwed up and tracked it down to this package.

Comment 7

[Simos Xenitellis]

The RPM for the font adds the file
/etc/fonts/conf.d/85-wqy-bitmapsong.conf

Source:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:zwu97hjVhWUJ:rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/7/i386/wqy-bitmap-fonts-0.8.1-6.fc7.noarch.html+wqy-bitmap-fonts&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Could you post the contents of that file?

Comment 8

[Behdad Esfahbod]

This is a bug is exactly that broken conf file.  Filed here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381311

The conf file obviously makes fontconfig use this font for English AND CJK langs.

Comment 9

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Not much we can do about that I guess? Marking INVALID based on the above comments. Thanks for looking into this Behdad!