Many TrueType fonts include an OS/2 table which holds codePageRange bits.
These bits indicate the old OS/2 code pages supported by the font, and
hence indirectly indicate which languages the font is intended to support.
These tables, however, are quite primitive, indicating support for only
Kaixo!
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:33:40AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
I don't know why all of the latin languages include and ', it's
probably just a mistake; they're easily removed.
For the '' I agree; but the apostrophe may be very important for
some languages (eg: French, English)
Hi Keith,
It seems a typo and I think using FcCodePageSet is always safer?
Shao
diff -uNr fcfreetype.c.orig fcfreetype.c
--- fcfreetype.c.origSun Jul 7 22:25:37 2002
+++ fcfreetype.cSun Jul 7 22:27:49 2002
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
if (matchCodePage[i])
{
if
Around 22 o'clock on Jul 7, Yu Shao wrote:
It seems a typo and I think using FcCodePageSet is always safer?
Good catch, there was a typo, but that code has since been deleted in
favor of the new RFC 3066-based language detection.
Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge
Around 23 o'clock on Jul 7, Roger So wrote:
Certainly; but have you considered the case that zh-HK and zh-MO users
prefer zh-TW fonts over zh-CN fonts, and vice versa for zh-SG? (What
other Chinese-speaking regions are there... perhaps zh-MY?)
Yes, each language-country pair may specify
Keith Packard wrote:
I got the European coverage information from
http://www.everytype.com/alphabets
I can't find www.everytype.com in the DNS, is that a typo ?
I'm curious because I can't understand the differences between
xc/lib/fontconfig/fc-lang/en.orth and
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 13:34, Keith Packard wrote:
My plan is to have fonts advertise the complete set of languages that they
cover, and then to allow them to further distinguish languages with
country codes as needed (zh-TW vs zh-CN).
Now matching can take place using the language tags;
Around 10 o'clock on Jul 7, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
I'm curious because I can't understand the differences between
xc/lib/fontconfig/fc-lang/en.orth and
xc/lib/fontconfig/fc-lang/fr.orth
In particular I remember 00e1 (a acute/Ã)¡ but not00f1 (n tilda/Ã)
from my French lessons.
Much as I hate the C locale model, I'm wondering if I shouldn't use the
current locale as a language hint where applications don't provide
explicit language information when selecting fonts. This would make
the generic aliases (like sans-serif) pick a font appropriate for the
locale instead
