Documentation?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Apr 7 05:52:22 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:32:38PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > This is not something specific to core fonts.
> 
> Fontconfig-using apps do not crash for lack of fonts, because
> fontconfig has built-in font substitution

Are you *really* sure about that? I haven't tried Firefox 3, but older
version definitely crashed if fontconfig wouldn't find fonts. Even if
the X server itself advertised the presence of core fonts.

Joerg



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