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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2023-01-27 00:55, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> 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

Not much of discussion, though. ;) But thanks for the link with the 
rationale from a Fedora POV.

Again, I support the change, and my question about a possible discussion 
was merely out of curiosity.

-- 
Gunnar