Re: [ft] Another problem with X11 PCF fonts and 2.7.1, now with bisect

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 08.01.2017 22:56, Chris Down wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm also having this problem since upgrading to 2.7.1 -- "Terminus"
> magically became "xos4 Terminus" to fontconfig, even though the
> underlying files providing that font haven't changed.
> 
> As a workaround I have added the following to my
> ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:
> 
>    <!-- Workaround for
>        
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2017-01/msg00019.html
>    -->
>    <alias>
>      <family>Terminus</family>
>      <prefer><family>xos4 Terminus</family></prefer>
>    </alias>
> 
> I'd expect that this breaks a lot of people's configurations, and I'm
> not sure really what the gain is here. Can we at least wait until a new
> major release (ie. 3.0.0) for such breaking changes? :-)

I haven't check, but this is likely caused by this change:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3576487add2f0e9691e8c43f8b0cd8e61aebf14f

So now if foundry name is present result is "<foundryname> <facename>"
as opposed to "<facename>" before this commit.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
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