[Fontconfig] language coverage

Keith Packard
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:07:23 -0000

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 00:40 -0500, Qianqian Fang wrote:
> do you see any downside to leave the language unspecified in
> the OS/2 table in the font, or, alternatively, use fc-lang data
> alone without looking up the OS/2 table in fontconfig to determine
> coverage?

Yes, of course. Chinese fonts are not suitable for displaying Japanese
text (and vice-versa, of course). They''ll get used if you have nothing
else, but if you''ve got both kinds of fonts, you''ll get the
right ones.
This also works for Korean and traditional vs simplified Chinese.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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