Japanese Font Antialiasing - Where did it go?

[Warren Togami]

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.
> 
> I've recently installed some new fonts, but none should affect japanese
> language support (all dealing with Mathematica 5).
> 
> Does any one else get this problem (if thats what it is) - you can run
> 'LANG=ja_JP gedit' if you have ja fonts installed to check - and has
> anyone figured out what's going on?
> 
> Matt Jones

I have noticed this in gaim too.  Earlier all fonts were looking good, 
but at some point in rawhide AA of fonts stopped working.

Warren