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icecat 91 can't display chinese font in many web page

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From: ison <ison <at> airmail.cc>
To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>
Cc: 51478 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 873216071 <at> qq.com
Subject: bug#51478: icecat 91 can't display chinese font in many web page
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:08:55 -0600

I'm not entirely sure if this is related, but after upgrading to 91
icecat would no longer use fonts from anywhere but my home directories
(~/.fonts or ~/.local/share/fonts).
And changing the whitelist to /gnu/store doesn't fix it.

What's strange is that the fonts are still listed in the icecat font
settings, but it won't use them. Even if I uncheck the box to allow
pages to choose their own fonts.

For example my LiberationSans font stopped working. But if I copy it (or
symlink it) to my ~/.fonts then it works.
NOTE: I test it by changing security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist
in about:config to "/gnu/store", closing icecat, running fc-cache -fv
(both as root and normal user), then opening icecat again. And it still
only uses LiberationSans if it gets copied to my home.

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