Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question

[Brian Stell]

Markus Kuhn wrote:
> ...
> I still have a bit the suspicion that font merging is primarily 
> needed to satisfactorily display pathologic pages such as ...

My experience as a developer working on Mozilla Linux fonts is
that it is very common to need font merging. Consider Latin1 
documents generated on Microsoft systems: these often have 
"smart quotes" which are not covered in iso8859-1 fonts.
The Euro, bullet, and others also are also fairly common.

It seems to me to be very Western centric to think that a
Japanese user would only want to read Japanese and English 
but never any other language combination such as Japanese 
and Hindi. (ditto other users/languages)

Specific apps may choose to only support a limited language 
set.

The core system needs to work reasonably for all users 
regardless of which Unicode ranges they may want to look
at at one time.

-- 
Brian Stell
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