Re: Thunderbird, ligatures, and "fixed-width" fonts

On 1/15/24 18:57, George Mitchell wrote:

> With help from Bertrand Petit and Stephen Hurd, I found out that this
> is a feature of the font system itself, or at least fontconfig.  The
> fix is to create a new file, ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, and put
> the contents of:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=247050
> in it.

Hello.
Thanks for bringing this up, as I'm experiencing the same problem.

I've looked up the patch you linked, but I don't know where to put it 
exacly.
I already have ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf and it's an XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font" >
   <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
    <const>none</const>
   </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font" >
   <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
    <bool>true</bool>
   </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font" >
   <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
    <const>hintmedium</const>
   </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font" >
   <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
    <bool>true</bool>
   </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

So where would that additional line go?
I don't know where my version comes from. Perhaps it was crafted from 
XFCE settings GUI?
Is this all obsolete? Should I delete this and replace it with the given 
text?

  bye & Thanks
	av.