#FreeMono font is used for Perso-Arabic text; fontconfig file from wiki does not help

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pliant yarrow
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The FreeMono font is used to display Perso-Arabic glyphs, which doesn't have a very pleasant appearance. The noto-fonts package is installed, which provides nicer-looking glyphs. The Arch Wiki mentions this problem and provides two example fontconfig files that ought to fix it. If I recall correctly, I tried all permutations of both files in user-specific and system-wide fontconfig files; however, this seemingly had the effect of making Firefox's UI use Noto while website content and other applications: Kate, clipboard widget (I run KDE Plasma) etc. continue to use FreeMono.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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^ Example of FreeMono (Kate)

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Example of Noto (KCharSelect)
This is what I want to be used everywhere.

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(Sorry, forgot to mention that KCharSelect for some reason duly uses Noto)

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Out of these config files, as far as I know only /etc/fonts/local.conf has been modified manually. It contains exactly the contents of the second file given in the wiki link (to reiterate, here)

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fc-match also seems to be finding Noto as it should, so I'm really not sure what the problem is.

[tartar@xplosive ~]$ LANG=ar fc-match
NotoSansArabic-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Arabic" "Regular"
pliant yarrow
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Update: The clipboard widget magically fixed itself

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So did webpages in firefox

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Seemingly only Kate is still broken

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So that's good I guess? my global fonts.conf reads: