Comment 112 for bug 502610

I don't want to see another discussions got wasted in vain and derailed by discussing something under a completely different design. The problem for fontconfig is real, every minute we delay to give a solution, we are wasting thousands of minutes from the frustrated users. So, let's solve it first.

I would like to give a suggestion for any further discussions on this issue:

Let's separate what you want to achieve (i.e. using per-font-preference) and what this bug is trying to solve (i.e. amend 65-nonlatin to buld sufficient CJK fallback). The assumption of my proposal is that the fontconfig maintainers are happy with the current structure. If you want to propose something beyond the scope, please file a separate bug. I would be glad to join the discussion there.

For those of you who want to help, PLEASE, please download my svn files and test with it by yourself, and list any specific issues or submit your patch wrt these files, and these files only!

We've already spent a lot of time here, we really want to hear what the maintainers say, so, Behdad or Keith, please tell us what you guys think.