Several distributions use the provided fonts.conf.in in fontconfig. This file lists Freefonts in the middle of the <prefer> list, over the CJK fonts. This causes issues in some distributions that don't customize to configuration file, so it would be good to have it fixed upstream.
Created attachment 6128 [details] [review] Patch to relegate freefonts to the end of the <prefer> list.
The font ordering has traditionally been a bad nuisance for many CJK users. Not only should freefont be moved to the bottom (as it is known to sacrifice font quality), current default font ordering needs a major overhaul as well.
(In reply to comment #2) > The font ordering has traditionally been a bad nuisance for many CJK users. Not > only should freefont be moved to the bottom (as it is known to sacrifice font > quality), current default font ordering needs a major overhaul as well. Agreed. Moving Freefonts to the bottom of the list is just a short-term solution for distributions that use the stock fonts.conf supplied by fontconfig. For example, see the sample fonts.conf files for these distributions, http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Fonts/fonts_2econf
I've moved the Free families to the very bottom of their respective aliases. That should discourage their use.
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