Around 21 o'clock on Jul 8, Patrice =?ISO-8859-15?B?SOlk6Q==?= wrote:

>  not requiring the "?" to be included in default font selection would lead
> people that don't particularly configure their font selection mechanism to
> be unable to read properly written French texts.

It's important to remember that this would never be the case; at the very 
worst, people with very limited font selections might end up having the
non-Latin 1 codepoints come from another font.  That's very undesirable.

I guess the question is whether it would be better to prefer fonts which 
support the entire French orthgraphy over fonts which are missing these 
few characters when applications don't provide an explicit family name.

It sounds like the answer to this is "yes", so I should add the 
non Latin-1 codepoints to the set required to display French.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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