LinuxQuestions.org - QT and Fontconfig BUG?

Firstly, My System: SuSE9.2, upgraded to Vanilla Kernel 2.6.12 and KDE 3.4.0

The Problem is: I wanna have a beautiful font display for both english and chinese, so i decided to use "SUSE Sans" as basic font and let it use "SimSun" when it comes to chinese characters. By default, it uses "FZSongTi" for chinese.

The first way I thought of is qtconfig.

I configured "Font Substitution" for "SUSE Sans" so that "SimSun" is the single substitution possibility for it. But after I restarted the system, it didn't seem to work as predicted. All Programms such as Kwrite and Konqueror still use "FZSongTi" for chinese. After trial and error I gave up using this method, coz qtconfig Font Substitution doesn't function at all!!!

After I did a internet rummage I found a second solution: fontconfig.

I deleted all "FZSongTi" entries in all config files in /etc/fonts/ and change the config like follows:

Code:



        <alias>

                <family>Trebuchet</family>

                <family>Segoe</family>

                <family>Andale Sans</family>

                <family>Albany AMT</family>

                <family>SUSE Sans</family>

                <default><family>sans-serif</family></default>

        </alias>



        ........



        <alias>

                <family>sans-serif</family>

                <prefer>

                        <family>Verdana</family>

                        <family>Arial</family>

                        <family>Albany AMT</family>

                        <family>SUSE Sans</family>

                        <family>Luxi Sans</family>

                        <family>SimSun</family>

                </prefer>

        </alias>

After a restart, to my surprise, all KDE programms still preferred "FZSongTi" to "SimSun". But GTK programms worked correctly.

Even if I force fontconfig to use "SimSun" like follows

Code:



<match target="pattern">

        <edit name="family">

                <string>SimSun</string>

        </edit>

</match>

KDE programms would NOT follow the rule ANYWAY. (Again, GTK apps work)

Only after I completely DELETED "FZSongTi" did KDE stop to use it!!! :mad:

I wonder if "FZSongTi" have a confidential connection with QT/KDE ?:confused:

How could I put these all things in order?