Around 13 o'clock on Jul 10, Anthony Fok wrote:
> Indeed. Nevertheless, it would be great if GB18030 fonts are still used as > a "fallback" font, i.e. if a glyph is not available from any other zh-TW > fonts on the system, then go find it in the GB18030 font. The form/style > may differ a little bit for that particular glyph, but it is better than > displaying a blank square. :-) That's already done -- the current implementation in Mozilla and Pango uses a new interface which takes the global list of fonts, sorts them in priority order and then returns a list comprising a set of fonts which covers as many Unicode code points as possible The whole discussion here about languages is not about finding *some* font for a particular glyph. That's easy given the complete mapping of coverage for every font which Fontconfig already computes. The discussion is about how to select the *best* font, preferrably without requiring any configuration. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
