[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1029707: Maybe set DejaVu Sans Mono as default font for Arabic

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:39 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at debian.org> wrote:
> That detail made me curious. I suppose it's related to this commit:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/ad70d785
>
> Which is not only about monospace, but affects most Debian users, also
> for sans-serif and serif, and also for web browsing, since
> fonts-noto-core is installed by default (probably due to the meta
> package libreoffice).
>
> That's a pretty radical change to come from fontconfig upstream. Hello
> Noto, goodbye DejaVu. Was it even discussed anywhere?

The individual who made the change upstream started this discussion:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultToNotoFonts

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha