On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:56:48PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Firefox 44 appears to have snuck in a change in font handling:
>
> Bitmap fonts are no longer used. At least that's what I see with
> only the default fonts installed (xenocara defaults plus ghostscript
> since that gets pulled in as a dependency).
>
> This has two effects I noticed:
>
> (1) For Latin script which is otherwise rendered with DejaVu,
> some butt-ugly bitmap font (Lucida, I think) would occasionally
> sneak through on some sites. This no longer happens.
>
> (2) The default CJK fonts are no longer displayed, easily verifiable
> under {ja,ko,zh}.wikipedia.org. I now only get squares with
> Unicode numbers.
>
> Now, I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing. I doubt anybody
> will complain about (1). People who actually read CJK text and are
> potentially affected by (2) probably have better fonts installed
> anyway since those shipped with xenocara are really poor.
>
> Landry tells me he can't reproduce this, which is even weirder.
And ja.wikipedia.org also displays fine on 45.0b2 w/ gtk3, as it does
with esr 38.5.2 using an empty profile.
Landry
