Provide bazel-maintained fallback font for PlantUML-parsing - #431
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Fundamentally driven via GH-copilot: Claude Sonnet 5
Problem:
When Sphinx documentation builds render PlantUML diagrams inside a minimal container or toolchain that has no native fontconfig library and no fonts installed, PlantUML crashes instead of rendering:
Solution:
Added a fallback mechanism of a bazel-maintained font in case no-system-font is available.
The proposed font was selected based on its license being compatible with https://www.eclipse.org/legal/licenses/