On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:41 +0600, Christopher Fynn wrote: > > Language specific rendering *can* be achieved using OpenType lookups - > but, even > if the font contains the necessary language specific lookups (and most > don't), > for this feature to function correctly the system somehow needs to > know which > language is being used. This cannot always be determined by current > locale, the > keyboard/IME used to type the text, or from the range of Unicode > characters > involved so especially with multilingual documents you need users to > reliably > mark up text. Language then needs to be indicated by some high-level > form of > mark-up or tagging within the documents - which right away excludes > plain text. Setting locale is actually enough. If that's not desired, $PANGO_LANGUAGE can be set as a fallback. So far seems like most of the issues happen because either the users are not setting locale correctly or are using crappy fonts. How do I don't care enough about those cases I'm not surprised. > - Chris -- behdad http://behdad.org/ ...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer* being struck by lightning. -- Matt Welsh _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
