[smc-discuss] Ubuntu 14.04 Malayalam Rendering

Sat Apr 26 22:14:24 PDT 2014

On Sunday, April 27, 2014, ബാലശങ്കർ സി <balasankarc at gnome.org> wrote:

> Err.. My mistake.. There was an older version of Meera in
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc. Till now I was checking only the one present in
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/malayalam-fonts.
>
> Removed the old one and updated font cache. Problem solved. Thanks.
>
> PS: Is there any priority in choosing the folder from which fonts will be
> used?
>

Yes, but that algorithm, as far as I know is quite complex and handled by
fontconfig. When in doubt, you can check which font file is served to match
a font name:
$ fc-match  -v Meera

Santhosh
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