Arial Kavovika?

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upnort
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Arial Kavovika?

Post by upnort » 2018/12/10 00:54:24

I have the webcore-fonts package (nux-dextop repo) and MATE desktop (epel repo) installed in a CentOS 7 VirtualBox test system. After updating to 7.6-1810, the MATE control center Appearance->Fonts dialog shows I have "Arial Kavovika" or "Arial Standaard" selected rather than "Arial Regular."

Likewise if I select Times New Roman or Courier New.

Tinkering with VirtualBox snapshots seem to indicate the problem is introduced with the fontconfig package.

Thanks again. :)

I am guessing the problem lies in the fontconfig files. Any ideas what is happening or how to correct?

chemal
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Re: Arial Kavovika?

Post by chemal » 2018/12/10 01:07:53

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$ fc-list Arial
/usr/local/share/fonts/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Κανονικά,Regular
/usr/local/share/fonts/arialbd.ttf: Arial:style=tučné,Bold
/usr/local/share/fonts/ariali.ttf: Arial:style=kurzíva,Italic
/usr/local/share/fonts/arialbi.ttf: Arial:style=tučné kurzíva,Bold Italic
That's Greek and Czech. :)

upnort
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Re: Arial Kavovika?

Post by upnort » 2018/12/10 03:52:48

This is weird.

Before updating fontconfig:

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fc-list | grep arial.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Regular,Normal....
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Regular,Normal....
After updating fontconfig:

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fc-list | grep arial.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Standaard,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Κavovika,Regular
The change in language order seems to imply a locale issue. Yet locale is unchanged:

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LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C
Flushing all known caches does not help.

I'm befuddled. :(

chemal
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Re: Arial Kavovika?

Post by chemal » 2018/12/10 14:49:50

It seems that if style is a comma-separated list, the GUI always shows the first list entry. But the fonts are the same as before. So no real problem.

upnort
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Re: Arial Kavovika?

Post by upnort » 2018/12/10 16:32:48

So no real problem.
A technical issue, no. A usability issue, yes. This is the kind of nonsense that gives the Linux desktop a poor reputation. This kind of glitch should not happen. :(

Still looking for a fix. :)

upnort
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Re: Arial Kavovika?

Post by upnort » 2018/12/22 18:50:36

Anybody know how to resolve this nuisance bug?

Thanks.

upnort
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Re: Arial Kavovika?

Post by upnort » 2018/12/25 18:15:45

This is interesting:

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fc-list | grep msttcore | sort | egrep -v '=Regular|=Bold|=Italic'

/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Standaard,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/arialbd.ttf: Arial:style=Έντονα,Bold
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/arialbi.ttf: Arial:style=Έντονα Πλάγια,Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/ariali.ttf: Arial:style=Πλάγια,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/cour.ttf: Courier New:style=Κανονικά,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/courbd.ttf: Courier New:style=tučné,Bold
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/courbi.ttf: Courier New:style=fed kursiv,Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/couri.ttf: Courier New:style=kurzíva,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/times.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Standaard,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/timesbd.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Έντονα,Bold
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/timesbi.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Έντονα Πλάγια,Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/timesi.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Πλάγια,Italic

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fc-list | grep webcore | sort | egrep -v '=Regular|=Bold|=Italic'

/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arial.ttf: Arial:style=Κανονικά,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arialbd.ttf: Arial:style=tučné,Bold
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arialbi.ttf: Arial:style=tučné kurzíva,Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/ariali.ttf: Arial:style=kurzíva,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/cour.ttf: Courier New:style=Κανονικά,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/courbd.ttf: Courier New:style=tučné,Bold
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/courbi.ttf: Courier New:style=fed kursiv,Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/couri.ttf: Courier New:style=kurzíva,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/times.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Normál,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/timesbd.ttf: Times New Roman:style=tučné,Bold
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/timesbi.ttf: Times New Roman:style=tučné kurzíva,Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/timesi.ttf: Times New Roman:style=kurzíva,Ita
Only those three fonts are affected.

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