I would like to point to a problem with the current config regarding
Arabic font.
For Arabic text, The dejavu sans is still being displayed in many webpages in firefox
instead of the noto sans.
However, when switching the system language to arabic, firefox correctly displays noto
sans arabic which is huge improvment.
But if the system/gnome language is set to english, dejavu is frequently used to display
some arabic texts in firefox
The problem with dejavu sans for Arabic is being incredibly ugly and borderline
unreadable
when bolded.
For example:
-at
fedoraproject.org/ar most text exhibit this problem, firefox is using dejavu to
render
arabic instead of noto sans when the system/gnome language is english
-Youtube video titles
-Most text at
podcast.google.com
-Wikipedia.org DOESN'T seem to suffer from this problem, It displays noto sans
arabic
regardless whether the system language is Arabic or English. (TLDR: this is the desired
behavior)
Picture example of the problem: where the first pic shows FFx rendering the text using
noto, the second pic it's using dejavu for arabic.
https://imgur.com/a/x97tCp9
Is this solvable?
How about chromium?
This might be a firefox issue if it prefers Dejavu to Noto Arabic (it sounds like that is
the case):
then I think you should report a bug in Mozilla bugzilla to ask them to change the
priorities.
I think nowadays Dejavu should be considered more of a fallback than default:
but of course it is still the default font in Ubuntu so... Nevertheless I don't see a
problem
with preferring Noto if installed. You can also open a Fedora bug to track this.
Jens
ps In general it is better to start a new thread for problems like this, after a long
time.