Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question

[Brian Stell]

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> ...
> That is only relevant to fonts having various versions of the same
> characters; eg an OpenType font with *both* Japanese and Chinese versions
> of most han characters.
> 
> In all other cases there is no real need to know the language: the font
> names are different for Chinese and Japanese fonts; so there can't be
> undesired behaviour: The font matching the requested name must always be
> the first in priority.

This only works if there is font of the specified name that has
the needed characters. What font name would one specify for a 
font with Japanese and Hindi?

If the fill in layer does not have a font of the specified name
with the specified characters then some bit of code must find a 
usable font or the app cannot display a readable char.

It would probably be reasonable to expect the layer above Xft
to find the "better" choices and if none are available expect
that Xft would fallback to finding "any" glyph even if it is
not the best possible choice.

Brian Stell
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