https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823637
--- Comment #10 from Akira TAGOH tagoh@redhat.com --- (In reply to Hans Ulrich Niedermann from comment #8)
I have removed the terminus-fonts package, and automagically the gnome-terminal terminal and the gnome-terminal font selection dialog have changed to stop including terminus. After re-installing the terminus-fonts package, both have automagically started showing terminus fonts again. This behaviour is the same both with the older terminus-fonts-4.48-3.fc32.noarch package (with updates-testing disabled) and (with updates-testing enabled) the newer terminus-fonts-4.48-5.fc32.noarch package.
Right. that should works on WS. and is the off topic for this issue and misled by comment#1. please ignore it.
However, nobody needs to select those broken italic version from the font selection box, as the fonts actually provided by terminus-fonts are in perfect working order. The user experience is certainly better if you install "terminus-fonts" if you want to use the Terminus font inside, say, your gnome-terminal and emacs, and just ignore the obviously broken italic font variant. The alternative is a separate package with legacy fonts for Emacs, and the user having to find out about actually needing the legacy variant package, then installing that legacy variant package in addition to the standard one to have Terminus for both gnome-terminal and Emacs, and then they see the broken italic font variants in the gnome-terminal font selection dialog again.
Right.. In that sense, applications which are going to deal with un-supported format should ignore them in their code to query fonts, in general at least.
(In reply to Hans Ulrich Niedermann from comment #9)
So... is this actually just a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750891?
No, I don't think so.