On Wednesday 2003.12.17 00:24:54 +0900, Jungshik Shin wrote: > Edward H. Trager wrote: > >On Saturday 2003.12.13 15:23:30 +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > > >>Does anyone have a step-by-step description of how to install > >>Bitstream Cyberbit in Debian Sid? And similarly for (MS) Arialuni? > >> > >>I am still puzzled on when exactly what font is used for display > >>and for printing in the various Mozilla versions. Each time I > >>think 'I got it' it turns out that 'I didn�t get it'... > > > > > > >I don't know whether the following page will answer your question or not: > > > >http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/#fonts > > > > >In Edit|Preferences|Appearance|Fonts, Mozilla provides options for > >specifying fonts > >for various script encodings, so you should be able to fine tune exactly > >which fonts > >get used. > > I wouldn't use 'fine-tune' and 'exactly'. As I wrote in my previous > messages, Mozilla's > font selection algorithm is complex and Mozilla contributors (including > myself) have put > a lot of time and efforts, but still there are issues. Besides, > Mozilla's font selection > menu is NOT per 'font encoding' BUT per 'langGroup' (which had better be > called > 'script group'). Only in Mozilla-X11core build, the loose mapping between > 'font encodings' (XLFD-based) and 'langGroups' exists. >
I wish I understood this better! What exactly does "langGroup" or "scriptGroup" mean in Mozilla? Can you point me to a URL that explains exactly how Mozilla does these things, and how that might be different from, say, the xft/fontconfig way of doing things? Clearly, from a user's perspective I was led to believe something possibly quite different about these dialogs in Mozilla. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
