Comment 28 for bug 161058

Created attachment 34511
cairo-respect-fontconfig.patch

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'll look into this after 1.8. Feel free to ping.

Ping!

I've used the enclosed cairo-respect-fontconfig.patch in Gentoo, Fedora, Arch Linux and Lunar Linux. And so have others. It is needed, so as not to partially ignore fontconfig's configuration files. Further info is in this post within Gentoo's huge fonts thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-723341-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-258.html