On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:33:17AM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> If I have two unicode based fonts for the same character range, how
> does the app rendering component e.g. pango, etc. decide which font to
> use?
For Xft1 (and I'm pretty sure fontconfig, which is used by Xft2), the
first matching font to provide the character is used.
So you can effectively order the fonts in the configuration by
preference: try (this font) first, if it's not in that one try (this
font), otherwise (this font).
> Mozilla uses Gtk as the base toolkit if I am not wrong. Does it use
> the pango rendering component too?
I don't believe so.
> An OT question, on the Win32 platform, does pango still use its own
> font selection and rendering logic? Or does it pass along the work to
> the OS own capability to do the same?
There has been a lot of work in that area recently, and I'm not sure
what the result is. I notice 1.1.3 added "use Uniscribe when present",
and was just released in the stable version 1.2.
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