On Wednesday 2003.12.17 11:34:23 +0900, Jungshik Shin wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Edward H. Trager wrote: > > > On Wednesday 2003.12.17 00:24:54 +0900, Jungshik Shin wrote: > > > Edward H. Trager wrote: > > > > >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. > > > > > > 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 > > 'scriptGroup' is just a term coined by me that I believe is better than > 'langGroup' because it's not languages but scripts that are relevant > here. 'langGroup's in Mozilla include 'Western', 'Central European', > 'Japanese', 'Cyrillic', 'Arabic', 'Hebrew', 'Tamil', 'Devanagari', > and so forth (just what you see in the font-selection dialog). > > > 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? > > I tried to explain it in my long email you quoted in your previous > email apparently without reading it. Maybe not very clearly, but my > two emails (before your first email in this thread) answered most of > your questions. > Thanks, Jungshik, I'll go back and reread those more carefully! -Ed
> > > Clearly, from a user's perspective I was led to believe something > > possibly quite different about these dialogs in Mozilla. > > What did you believe was the case? Then, I'll go from there if > necessary. > > Jungshik > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
