[Bug 1043031] Re: fontconfig-voodoo is not included in language-selector-common

[Iain Lane]

I did this at ppa:laney/language-selector.

It's not right, though. Let's take a look at 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf as
an example.

	<match target="pattern">
		<test qual="any" name="family">
			<string>serif</string>
		</test>
		<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
			<string>DejaVu Serif</string>
			<string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
			<string>HYSong</string>
			<string>AR PL UMing CN</string>
			<string>AR PL UMing HK</string>
			<string>AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni</string>
			<string>AR PL New Sung</string>
			<string>WenQuanYi Bitmap Song</string>
			<string>AR PL UKai CN</string>
			<string>AR PL ZenKai Uni</string>
		</edit>
	</match> 

So if I ask for "serif" I get DejaVu and Bitstream Vera before getting any
others. This overrides the default selection for /all/ users, whereas before it
would only happen for zh_CN users due to the LANG test.

We could perhaps guard the "generic" fonts by a LANG test and leave the rest
unguarded?

Or just remove those ones altogether and add the others (in "append"
mode?)?

It would help a lot if someone could test these options (you can edit the file
directly in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/) and report back what the best option is.

We need to make sure that users who do not have this locale/font don't see any
change.

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Title:
  fontconfig-voodoo is not included in language-selector-common

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When I try to use "fontconfig-voodoo" in Ubuntu 12.10 from terminal,
  it told me:

      The program 'fontconfig-voodoo' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
      sudo apt-get install language-selector-common

  Actually, I have language-selector-common package installed in my
  Ubuntu.

  Where is fontconfig-voodoo? Without it, I can't config the correct
  Chinese fonts under English locale.

  Thanks.

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