The current Korean orthography looks like a combination
of KSC-5607.1987 with the complete Hangul Syllables
area of Unicode.
However, there are fonts out there that only have
the Hangul syllables in KSC-5607.1987 ... one example
would be the freely available 'Baekmuk Batang' font;
such fonts are *not* currently recognized as supporting
Korean.
If this was just a matter of "preferring fonts with
all the Hangul syllables in Unicode when all other things
are equal", then this wouldn't be a big problem, but
it's more serious than this:
- You can't specify such a font in a generic alias,
and have it preferentially selected for Korean language
tags.
- You can't specify such a font in a generic alias,
and have it selected at all if you have fonts
with the complete orthography.
- fontconfig statements like "disable hinting for
Korean fonts" don't work properly with such a font.
I think the right thing to do is probably just to use
only the KSC-5607.1987 syllables in the Korean orthography;
my understanding is that they are sufficient for the
vast majority of modern Korean text.
Regards,
Owen
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