[Fontconfig] language coverage

Keith Packard
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:44:01 -0000

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 22:36 -0500, Qianqian Fang wrote:

> I am wondering if fontconfig does additional check to
> comparing to fc-lang data, and if there is a way to tell
> which code points are missing?

Yes, ttf fonts have some OS/2 table bits that indicate which Han
languages they are designed to support; your font likely indicates that
it supports Chinese, so fontconfig elides the Japanese language from the
supported list, even though the font completely covers the Unicode
codepoints required by Japanese.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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