On 2011-11-19 14:25, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Perhaps this can be of use: https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/121
> Am 19.11.2011 um 13:51 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > >> 2011/11/19 Keith J. Schultz <keithjschu...@web.de >> <mailto:keithjschu...@web.de>>: >> >>> As for getting junk when copying unicode, just copy between to >>> text using different fonts, where one font does >>> not contain the glyph. >>> >> When performing copy&paste or text search in PDF, I am not interested >> in glyphs but in characters. I do not care what glyphs will be >> displayed. If I copy the text to OpenOffice, I can change the font >> later and if the codepoints were transferred correctly, I will see the > As you say if transferred correctly! > >> text (it was true even with OpenOffice 1.x, I tried many years ago). >> If I copy the text to gedit, ontconfig will automatically find a font >> for displaying the characters not present in the current font. I still >> have to read the fontconfig manual in order to find how to configure >> its searching algorithm. Arabic fonts may be a problem especially if >> you wish to use Arabic, Persian and Urdu. Now I know that I have to >> force fontonfic to select automatically SIL Scheherezade because it >> contains all characters. I can thus use both U+0643 and U+06A. When >> writing Akbar, I can write it both in Arabic and in Urdu/Farsi > > [snip, snip] > >>> The only advise I can give is choose your tools wisely. >>> > > regards > Keith. > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
