Opened 2 years ago
Closed 2 years ago
#17423 closed bug (no change required)
Possible issue with font management
| Reported by: | LianBg | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | - General | Version: | R1/beta3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
Hey there,
On my system (Haiku on metal; Acer Aspire 7738G laptop), I have installed a logographic font that uses ligatures to render a script for the Toki Pona language. The font's name is Linja Pona and can be found here: https://github.com/janSame/linja-pona/
The font works fine, however on several occasions with various programs, I have encountered issues where these programs absurdly use that logographic font in place of a proper font. Because this happened in various different programs with no connection to each other but running on Haiku, I am inclined to believe it has less to do with individual bad coding of these projects but is rather representative of an OS level issue; maybe the OS incorrectly tags that font as a good choice for sans serif or serif applications.
I have not set that font as any kind of system font, in case you are wondering.
Here are links to two of the tickets I have opened on the respective programs' issue trackers: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/issues/6426 https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues/1697
This is an issue in Qt5 port, not Haiku.