Around 15 o'clock on Jul 8, Roger So wrote:
> A guy from the IT department of the HK Government was in the discussion, > and he stated that the official plan is to provide support for the PUA > entries as an interim measure, until the whole system is ready to > migrate to use non-BMP entries: ... > I suspect that it would be troublesome to support non-BMP entries in > fontconfig though... It's trivial for fontconfig; fontconfig doesn't use fonts, it just lets applications find them. *using* them is a completely separate issue happily beyond the purview of this library. Let me rephrase the question in the context of this discussion -- in attempting to identify which languages a given font is suitable for, I believe I shouldn't expect fonts designed for HKSCS to support the non-BMP encodings, and so shouldn't exclude fonts missing non-BMP glyphs as unsuitable for zh-hk documents. A secondary question is whether I should check the PUA entries; I believe I probably shouldn't, and let the zh-hk support rest on whether the font covers the non-PUA BMP subset of HKSCS. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
