Comment 31 for bug 1153188

On 2013-03-25 18:15, عبدالله شلي (Abdellah Chelli) wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> wrote:
>>
>> * The fontconfig file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf says "Urdu
>> Nastaliq Unicode", which means that the font it states as the default
>> is not available.
>
> Yes
>
> I wasn't knowing which package should take care of this. Also I was
> thinking about replacing "Ubuntu" font like "Gnome Tweak Tool" do.
> Where here it with fontconfig it seems to me like 'font priority
> list', is it so?

Yes, that's my understanding as well.

> if yes, so the font mentioned here is just a
> fallback. because there other Arabic script fonts at the top of it.

Yes, a fallback or default. Ok, so you mean that if you have one of those other Arabic fonts installed that claims to be capable of rendering Urdu, that font will be used in any case.

This may explain the lack of progress so far for you.

> Please, let me know if I didn't understand you well.

I think you did.

This is indeed a learning process for me.

As you may have noticed, I forwarded the proposal with respect to fontconfig to freedesktop.org, which is where the fontconfig package resides upstream. The first reaction, which you can see here in comment #25, is to not change the Urdu default upstream unless there is a consensus among Urdu speaking users. But Akiro also mentions the possibility to have own recipes to give a font a priority.

By looking at other fontconfig files I created the attached file 90-fonts-nafees.conf. As an experiment, can you please carry out these steps:

* Save 90-fonts-nafees.conf in /etc/fonts/conf.avail

* Change directory to /etc/fonts/conf.d

* Create a symlink by typing this command:
  sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/90-fonts-nafees.conf 90-fonts-nafees.conf

Please let us know if that makes a difference.