On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 08:57:42PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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?
Hm, given that from what i understand, the symptoms you're seeing... cant be reproduced anywhere i tried, i'm puzzled. Or i misunderstood your explanations. That said, there are two font-related notes in the changelog that i linked from my commit (but nobody reads commit messages :): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/44.0/releasenotes/ "To support unicode-range descriptor for webfonts, font matching under Linux now uses the same font matching code as other platforms" "Stricter validation of web fonts" A quick look at the 'list of bugs fixed in this release' (link at the bottom of the page) yields to some fontconfig-related bugs like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180560 I have of course no idea what this all means :) Landry
