[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#652516: Korean font breakage

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 04:15:16AM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote:
> Installing hedgewars broke system default Korean font preference! I
> don't know why wqy-series maintainers keep Korean glyphs in their font
> series. They just make problems than benefits.
> 
> How about using language specific pattern match, instead of <alias>? For
> example I have used this in fonts-nanum until Nanum was added to the
> fontconfig default config.
> 
> ...
>   <match target="pattern">
>     <test qual="any" name="lang" compare="contains">
>       <string>ko</string>
>     </test>
>     <test qual="any" name="family" compare="eq">
>       <string>sans-serif</string>
>     </test>
>     <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first" binding="same">
>       <string>NanumGothic</string>
>     </edit>
>   </match>

Interesting idea.

By the way, what sets "lang" to certain value.  LANG environment?

Is there any way to set priority order for LANG=en via some
configuration script?  Then we can solve this CJK font priority order
issue for fontconfig default config.

Osamu