[Bug 1560114] Re: Bitmap fonts are disabled by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

Yes, this is intentional.

See /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/README.Debian for instructions on how to enable bitmap fonts. I copied the instructions below.
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If you wish to enable bitmapped fonts manually, remove the
/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf symbolic link and add a symlink named
70-yes-bitmaps.conf pointing to ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf:

  cd /etc/fonts/conf.d && \
    rm -f 70-no-bitmaps.conf && \
    ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf

** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Bitmap fonts are disabled by default

Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  By default, fontconfig-config installs a file called
  "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf". It disables bitmap fonts. What
  good for, I don't know. Though if you later install a bitmap font
  "apt-get install xfonts-terminus" then that font wont show up in
  menus. That is not what you expect. The workaround is:

  sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
  sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-yes-bitmaps.conf

  But you shouldn't need that and bitmap founds shouldn't be disabled.

  The bug is present in Ubuntu wily, 15.10.

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