On Monday 31 March 2003 04:31 pm, Jungshik Shin wrote: >Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > >I want such "alias" to be automated. If I have one Korean > > font installed, it is obvious that renderer must use the > > font for all Korean texts. It is not a good idea that the > > renderer fail to display Korean when the user doesn't > > configure the "alias". > > fontconfig always returns a font if there's a font on the > system with the character requested. > So, it's possible now.
Doing it one character at a time is guaranteed to give hideous results. I have had the unfortunate experience of viewing a display in mixed CJK fonts, and I have had many similar unfortunate experiences of viewing APL code rendered in random math fonts. It is extremely important to a lot of people that they be able to specify a font *per language*, without regard to the definition of Unicode blocks or old-time code pages or ISO-8859-* or any other 8-bit font hack. But we want to do it once, and then have it work with every program through unlimited system upgrades, and be able to take the config file to any other computer to install in our private user areas. There is, of course, the question of defining the character repertoire and rendering rules for a language (which may differ substantially from the rules for another language written in the same script). To get started, it will suffice if I can say that the set of characters in one font that I designate defines the repertoire for my use of the language. When we have adequate support for more intelligent fonts, we can build in some of the rendering rules, also, but in the end language-specific document creation will be the job of applications well above the text editor level. At some point, explicit repertoire lists will be needed, I suppose. Or something else we haven't thought of yet. -- Edward Cherlin Generalist & activist--Linux, languages, literacy and more "A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it!" --Alice in Wonderland -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
