Japanese Font Antialiasing - Where did it go?

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:00, Matt Jones wrote:
> Hi - I just noticed that the font antialiasing seems to have stopped
> working for Japanese fonts. Admittedly, I haven't been using japanese on
> rawhide for about 3 weeks, but I have no clue what's going wrong.
> 
> When i run LANG=ja_JP gedit i get nasty non-antialiased text, which used
> to not happen. Glancing at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, I see some comment
> about disabling antialiasing for korean, japanese and chinese fonts, yet
> when I re-enable (change a false to a true) it via that xml file,
> nothing changes.

See:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97337

It's a fontconfig bug, but hard to fix without updating to devel
code, so I've worked around it for the fonts we ship.

The package with the fix had been sitting around for a month because
of some problems I encountered before with Perl include paths
and the documentation; I've thrown it into the build system again and
hopefully it will build this time.

Regards,
						Owen