Default fonts in Firefox

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Ming Hua">

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:36:51AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Perhaps, but it would be good to put DejaVu ahead of Bitstream Vera in
> > the fontconfig aliases list, so if a user installs DejaVu, they get it
> > for the Sans / Serif / Monospace aliases.
> 
> I don't think that's necessary.  At least for freetype/libxft, as long as
> DejaVu is aliased to sans font in fontconfig, even if it's after Vera,
> freetype/libxft will try to find a glyph that doesn't exist in Vera in
> later aliases to sans.  And if the user has installed DejaVu, they'll see
> the glyphs in DejaVu (but not in Vera) when they specify sans font.

This is true! :-)

- Jeff

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