id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
18716	tuning-fontconfig is out of date since fontconfig-2.14.	ken@…	ken@…	"I was reading a list today where somebody said that fontconfig now prefers Noto fonts.

That turns out to be true: in the README under 2.13.95 (2.14-RC5) it says:
{{{
conf.d/60-latin.conf: Make Noto default.
}}}

In fact, Noto fonts appear in various conf.d/ files. This change came from Fedora, after dissatisfaction with DejaVu in some writing systems.
They apparently made the change in FC36. For their language packs this apparently saves some space. Their rationale is at [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultToNotoFonts]

A page listing what they planned to use for various languages is at [https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/noto/f36-noto.html]

Looking at this, I found a page explaining, among other things, how to override the Serif arabic font (apparently, the urdu font is preferred), and how to set an alias for Arial to use with webpages which specify that for arabic and persion [https://www.baeldung.com/linux/configure-multilingual-fonts]

It appears that in 2.14.1 the monospace font was screwed up, the correct general mono font should be Noto Sans Mono.

This affects the detail, but having missed it at the time I don't think correcting all the details is too urgent - I can look at that part after I've finished updating my details of (latin, cyrillic, greek) fonts.

For the moment, I'll put a note on the page."	defect	closed	normal	12.1	BOOK	git	medium	fixed