diff -uNr blender-2.78c.orig/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_font_i18n.c blender-2.78c/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_font_i18n.c

--- blender-2.78c.orig/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_font_i18n.c	2017-02-13 06:08:03.000000000 -0800

+++ blender-2.78c/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_font_i18n.c	2017-03-11 21:25:50.361053885 -0800

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@

 {

 #ifdef WITH_INTERNATIONAL

 	if (unifont_ttf == NULL) {

-		const char * const fontpath = BKE_appdir_folder_id(BLENDER_DATAFILES, "fonts");

+		const char * const fontpath = "/usr/share/fonts/blender";

 		if (fontpath) {

 			char unifont_path[1024];

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@

 {

 #ifdef WITH_INTERNATIONAL

 	if (unifont_mono_ttf == NULL) {

-		const char *fontpath = BKE_appdir_folder_id(BLENDER_DATAFILES, "fonts");

+		const char * const fontpath = "/usr/share/fonts/blender";

 		if (fontpath) {

 			char unifont_path[1024];

diff -uNr blender-2.78c.orig/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt blender-2.78c/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt

--- blender-2.78c.orig/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt	2017-02-24 06:09:19.000000000 -0800

+++ blender-2.78c/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt	2017-03-13 10:59:14.815315973 -0700

@@ -370,9 +370,8 @@

 # localization

 if(WITH_INTERNATIONAL)

 	install(

-		DIRECTORY

-			${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/release/datafiles/fonts

-		DESTINATION ${TARGETDIR_VER}/datafiles

+		DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/release/datafiles/fonts/

+		DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/fonts/blender

 	)

 	set(_locale_dir "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/release/datafiles/locale")