[Bug 2009303] Re: Make font preferences for Arabic locale agnostic

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This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.222

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language-selector (0.222) mantic; urgency=medium

  * data/pkg_depends:
    - Always pull hunspell and myspell dicts
  * Switch to Noto as default font
    - Add 56-language-selector-prefer.conf
    - Drop 56-language-selector-ar.conf (no longer needed)
    - Simplify list of fonts pulled by check-language-support
    - Install extra fontconfig file for the snaps
    - This is a step to achieve the goal in
      https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/36923
    - Fixes LP: #1866038 and LP: #2009303

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:35:48
+0200

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  Make font preferences for Arabic locale agnostic

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Currently — if fonts-noto-core and fonts-noto-ui-core are installed —
  fontconfig picks Noto Sans Arabic UI as the default sans-serif font
  for Arabic, but only under an Arabic locale. The latter is to avoid a
  change of the default sans-serif font (from DejaVu to Noto) for most
  other languages only by installing fonts-noto-core.

  But with fontconfig 2.14.1-3ubuntu1 the prerequisites have changed.
  Noto is now preferred over DejaVu by default as soon as fonts-noto-
  core is present, irrespective of Ubuntu's custom file for Arabic.

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
  devel/2023-January/042449.html

  So we can and should drop the requirement to run under an Arabic
  locale to have fontconfig pick the desired Noto fonts for Arabic.

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