arial narrow is broken since Fedora 8

[Julian Sikorski]

Julian Sikorski pisze:
> Nicolas Mailhot pisze:
>> Le Mar 9 décembre 2008 15:02, Julian Sikorski a écrit :
>>
>>> Which is the right one then? I think openoffice issue 79878 could be a
>>> good choice,
>> If you only care about OO.o this is the right one, but that won't fix
>> KDE and friends.
>>
>>> but I'm not sure about freedesktop one. I'm not that
>>> interested in others, since my document work is mainly done in oo.o.
>>> Besides, I guess that fontconfig needs to work properly before
>>> anything else will, right?
>> Fontconfig does work properly today. What does not work is apps that
>> assume there are only 4 font faces possible and can not handle what
>> fontconfig returns them for modern fonts.
>>
>> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79878#desc27
>>
> If I remember correctly, a while ago you told me that gtk font selector
> should be working correctly as well. The thing is that it does show
> "extraordinary" typefaces for let's say DejaVu LGC Sans, but for Arial
> the list is pretty much busted - please see the screenshot I attached to
> the Red Hat bug #466678 (mentioned in the first email). Which software
> could be responsible for this? I suspected fontconfig.
> 
> Regards,
> Julian
> 

Hmm, I did some more testing and it really seems that something gets
messed up at the point at which arial is merged with arial narrow. If
you launch gedit with LANG=C, and go to font selection, you will get the
following:
http://belegdol.fedorapeople.org/gtkfontselen.png
Selecting narrow will get you narrow typeface, but something is clearly
wrong there. On the other hand, in pl_PL locale:
http://belegdol.fedorapeople.org/gtkfontselpl.png
entries are duplicated and none of the displayed ones will select the
narrow typeface. I suspect something is wrong with the font as well, but
if per-font quirks are out of question, I suppose there is a proper way
to fix the problem.

Regards,
Julian