On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 21:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: […] > I've always felt text rendering engines should be able to automatically > fallback to another font for any characters that aren't in the selected > font. (Ideally with a user-configurable chain of fallbacks, similar to > CSS, but selected on a per-character basis.) Because showing the right > character in a mismatched font has *got* to be better than not showing > the character at all and a generic "missing font" glyph.
Cairo and Pango already do effectively this based on Fontconfig don't they? […] -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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