On 2016-02-03, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <i...@juanfra.info> 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). > > Search the string "font." in about:config. The text in bold are > non-default values. Look if you have the file > .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf. Firefox uses these about:config > settings and fontconfig to select the fonts. All default values, no ~/.config/fontconfig/. > Open "ja.wikipedia.org", click with the secondary button of your mouse > in any line of text and click in "Inspect Element". Click in > "Inspector" and "Fonts". It will show which font is used to render > that text. DejaVu Sans. (Which doesn't have glyphs for Japanese.) You are treating this like a bug report. That wasn't my intention. I assumed it was some conscious upstream change. (I see the same on FreeBSD.) I don't consider it a problem, but I thought I'd bring it up _before_ ports lock, because people always get worked up over any Firefox changes. So am I to understand that this is not a general change in Firefox font handling? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
