Re: Font priorities

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 20:42, Stefan Baums wrote:
> Hi Karunakar,
> 
> many thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately, adding
> 
>    <family>Raghindi</family>
> 
> to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf does not solve the problem.  Devanagari still
> looks like in the attached windowshot, and judging from the shape of
> the letters, it does not seem to be Raghindi that is used, but rather
> ClearlyU.  Please note that the Arabic in that windowshot is incorrect
> (uncombined), too - maybe this is not a fontconfig, but a Pango/GTK+
> problem?

It rather looks like you probably aren't using Xft2/fontconfig at all,
but rather the old X backend. Pango probably didn't correctly locate
Xft2 for one reason or another when it built.

The OpenType Indic support is only for the Xft backend.

Regards,
                                        Owen