Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 14:59 +0100, Andreas Schwab a écrit : >> Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Therefore, I'd like to identify remaining core font users, and remind >> > them periodically their core font use is not good for their users or for >> > Fedora. >> >> What's wrong with proving support for core fonts as a fallback? That's >> what Emacs is doing, for example. > > The problem here is your fallback is going to be less robust than your > primary path. Also it is not needed at all. Every single major GUI app > uses the "new" (in 2003 sense of new) font backend, so if it fails > you're not going to fallback individual apps you're going to switch to > the console to fix the system. I don't understand. Emacs uses the fallback for example to display characters from the Korean KSC charset, in my case using -daewoo-minco-medium-*-ksc5601.1987-0 fonts. What's the "approved" way to do that? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different." -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
