Tdesktop: [Feature Request] Stop fighting over font choices and provide a font selection option

[oldherl]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

In recent versions, font names and weights are changing back and forth, because one font simply won't satisfy all people.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add options to let users pick their preferred UI font (family, weight, size...) for messages, names, and everything else.
This way nobody would be arguing over this problem.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Read custom CSS (or QSS) from some location on the filesystem.

Additional context

This world is diverse. Trying to fit one font for all people is unfair for the minorities. Telegram is customizable by so-called "theme", but the font family and size are not changeable in the theme! This is ridiculous.

[oldherl]

FYI, some characters in different languages share the same codepoints in Unicode, but should appear differently. Forcing to use the same font would render them incorrect in some languages. And no. not everyone speaks only the language as the system locale. Don't make ignorant assumptions and provide options.

[ilya-fedin]

90 :)

[oldherl]

@ilya-fedin OK, but that issue is locked, and I fail to see any progress or proposal to implement it.

[ilya-fedin]

Fallbacks should be OK now, just a little occasion with Open Sans

[AndydeCleyre]

Fallbacks should be OK now, just a little occasion with Open Sans

What does this mean? How can one choose the fonts (other than breaking the included ones at build time)?

[ilya-fedin]

What does this mean?

Font fallback for different writing systems are becoming better

How can one choose the fonts (other than breaking the included ones at build time)?

Nohow AFAIK