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")