2006-11-08

/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID – Which fonts would go there?

Posted in Computers, PlanetDebian at 21:49 CET (+0100) by sven

Today at work, I wondered about xfs, which logged the following warnings via syslog:

xfs xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable)
xfs xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable)

After investigation, I found them to be configured in /etc/X11/fs/config, which look sane even though those paths don’t exist. However, searching through all the Debian packages available to my system (which include several non-free repositories), I was only able to find one package providing fonts in .../fonts/cyrillic, but none providing fonts in .../fonts/CID. I would be interested to know why that path was included in the default search path for xfs. Not even the evil msttcorefonts package installs any fonts in that path. Could anyone refer to anything that uses (or used) that path?

Granted, x-ttcidfont-conf refers to CID fonts, but no other package seems to mention them, so why is that path in the default config? I admit I’m quite puzzled.

2 Comments

  1. daniels said,

    November 9, 2006 at 11:34 CET (+0100)

    CID fonts are an old CJK font standard that never really took hold. I haven’t been able to find a CID font around, and I think it’s switched off by default in upstream (which is good, because it has questionable licensing).

  2. gajownik said,

    November 11, 2006 at 01:02 CET (+0100)

    Fonts in /usr/lib? Why? They should be somewhere in /usr/share…
    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA