Around 18 o'clock on Aug 12, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> You already know my opinion on the issue: applications should be able > to fall back to different fonts upon encountering a glyph they cannot > display. Heck, I actually wrote Cedilla just to demonstrate how that > can be done! Of course they should, but it's best to locate a font which can display all of the desired language to avoid the poor appearance generated by mixing fonts. That's why $LANG (et al.) is just a hint about which fonts might be preferred; applications are still (encouraged? required?) to recover from codepoints not supported by generating a list of suitable fonts to choose from. Fontconfig has a nice API to make this efficient and convenient; new applications are encouraged to use this mechanism. I'm interested in hearing how applications take advantage of this so that we can build some support into Xft and fontconfig to make it even easier. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
