Font priorities

[Stefan Baums <baums u washington edu>]

Dear list,

I am using fontconfig 2.1, pango 1.2.0 and GTK+ 2.2.0.  In my ~/.fonts
directory, I installed the Devanagari OpenType font "Raghindi"
(raghu.ttf), and it is duly found by fontconfig and consorts, as
evidenced by the font selection dialogues in gucharmap and gimp
1.3.11.

However, when rendering text with the default fontset ("Sans"), such
as in file selection dialogues, fontconfig/pango/GTK+ insist on using
the FreeSans font for Devanagari instead of Raghindi.  FreeSans
contains some Devanagari glyphs, but no GSUB/GPOS information
whatsoever, so the result is that conjunct consonants etc. do not get
rendered properly.

What to do?

Regards,
Stefan

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Stefan Baums
Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington