Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>
> KP> Much as I hate the C locale model, I'm wondering if I shouldn't use the
> KP> current locale as a language hint where applications don't provide
> KP> explicit language information when selecting fonts.
>
> Please do not do that. It will make the life of developers miserable
> (would *you* think of asking about the user's locale upon receiving a
> bug report you cannot reproduce?).
You have hit a very important issue here: how to tell what is
happening on a user's system when the bug-fixer/developer cannot
reproduce the problem.
I have seen this problem many times in mozilla bugs and I finally
added code that can be enabled with an environment variable to
report how the fonts are being selected. One of the things it does
report is the language group it is looking at.
Any thoughts on what would be a good fallback if the document does
not specify a language group and the document encoding does not
give a hint (eg: Unicode)?
--
Brian Stell
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