Hi, Danilo Ĺ egan wrote: > Hi Clytie, > Today at 5:29, Clytie Siddall wrote: >> I have specialist fonts for Vietnamese, and for some other languages, >> but I only use them when I'm preparing documents for print. Ludida >> Grande does an excellent job of my language, and of many others. So I >> wanted the same convenience for users of our distributions, >> especially those who may not know how to install or setup specialist >> fonts. > > The thing is that fontconfig, that underlies our font selection > system, is way more advanced. > > You wouldn't have to "select" any font: if your current font is unable > to display Vietnamese, fontconfig will select the first one that can. > If you have a font-per-script, you can set the best font for any > script, thus you would be getting better results without any more work! > > Of course, it gives suboptimal results if fonts contain parts of a > script, but not the full script, so you get a mess of characters from > different fonts.
thinking: - What happens if there's no single font that fits, when language X turns up? - If the fonts are free and not platform specific, might they not be made to cater for other (even inferior) platforms too? I've seen rather a lot of messages in other fora lately from or about people not being able to read this, see that, "I only see ????" - and the occasional "...it shows fine in MSOE/MSIE/MSWord etc., why can't these open source guys just make it work too?" and worse. Once in a while there's the "how did you write that character? - I can see it but not write it!". So my take on the font issue is that there should exist at least one catch-all font that can be used on any platform, and where possible be used only when truly fit, or as a last resort. Other than that, I agree with Behdad. BR, Gudmund _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n