Arch Linux

I also reproduce this. Looking at the changes (https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/ttf-droid&id=4527049352b70758a60847d10393e31b9ef40d81), since the actual font didn't change it looks like it's one of the following:

1. A config reordering change, but it would have to be due to the alphabetic part, since the numbers stayed the same
2. A result of removing one of the dependencies
3. Something to do with installing in `/usr/share/fonts/droid` instead of `/usr/share/fonts/TTF`
4. Something to do with using symlinks instead of copying the files

I'll keep on investigating.

Looking at `pacman -Qql ttf-droid` before and after makes another change more clear: before, we didn't symlink the configs in conf.d so they would actually be used. Now we set up the symlinks, and they have things like this:

<match target="scan">
<test name="lang" compare="eq">
<string>zh-cn</string>
</test>
<test name="lang" compare="eq">
<string>zh-sg</string>
</test>
<test name="lang" compare="eq">
<string>zh-hk</string>
</test>
<test name="lang" compare="eq">
<string>zh-tw</string>
</test>
<test name="lang" compare="eq">
<string>zh</string>
</test>
<test name="fullname">
<string>Droid Sans Japanese</string>
</test>
<edit name="family">
<string>Droid Sans</string>
</edit>
<edit name="fullname">
<string>Droid Sans</string>
</edit>
<edit name="fontversion">
<int>1</int>
</edit>
</match>

My guess is that some of these (there are a lot) eventually result in promoting a font without CJK glyphs incorrectly. Indeed, if I do the following then glyphs display correctly again even on pkgrel 7:

rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/*droid*

For now, here's my workaround (with linking to hopefully create pacnew files on upgrade instead of just removing them): https://github.com/cdown/ansible-desktop/commit/34891e79dee46d2562d97ef5723ea2dba09ec622

I cannot reproduce the issue (ttf-droid-20121017-10).
Is it still valid?

Still there, on my end.

Is this still an issue with latest pkgs?

Yes, still here.

@tgn-ff, if you downgrade to latest known working release (-6) are you still able to to fix it?

Yes, more or less. There are still some missing glyphs - not sure if they were missing when I reported the issue. The best workaround, if one wants to use the font, is in cdown's comment above.

Are you sure is your browser using `Droid` in that page?

I made sure to remove other fonts providing CJK support beforehand. Also, this doesn't affect the browser, but rather the titlebar of the window manager, kwin in my case.

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