GNU bug report logs - #30793
25.3; menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 25.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105415

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Message #11 received at 30793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30793: 25.3;
 menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:04:21 +0100

>>>>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Isn't this entirely between X and fontconfig?  I mean, what's Emacs's
> part in this?

Indeed, it is entirely a fontconfig problem:

> $ fc-match 'Droid Sans-10:bold'   # with fontconfig-2.12.6
> DroidSans-Bold.ttf: "Droid Sans" "Bold"

> $ fc-match 'Droid Sans-10:bold'   # with fontconfig-2.13.0
> DroidSans.ttf: "Droid Sans" "Regular"

> Was this reported to the fontconfig developers?

It was: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105415

Sorry for the noise.
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