fontconfig can do a lot of what you're describing here. i.e. pick different fonts based on the charset that you're using or the character that you're displaying. The latest versions of Gtk2 use fontconfig for font selection. --Chris On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 09:57 +0800, Chen Shaopeng wrote: > Richard Megginson wrote: > > speedy zinc wrote: > > > >> --- Chen Shaopeng <chen_shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> You can change the display font to see if it's > >>> right, go to > >>> Edit -> Preferences -> Font, and select a font that > >>> can > >>> display your native language. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> hah, that's an easy one :) thanks. > >> > >> The only thing thouhg, there is no easy way to switch > >> font quickly. If I want to view greek contents, I have > >> to change to a different font. If I want to view > >> chinese > >> contents, I have to switch to a font that can handle > >> chinese charset.... man, that's not very productive. > >> > >> > > That's an interesting problem. Is there an app that can do that? > > > > I see this as two problems: > > 1. Most fonts can only handle one charset, some can handle two, e.g. > some chinese fonts. The annoying thing, I can choose a font that > looks nice in chinese, but way ugly in english (most chinese fonts > are like that). Or I can choose a font that looks nice in english, > but almost unreadable in chinese (some microsoft chinese fonts are > like that). It would be really cool if a font can handle charset > of the major languages, and look decent too. And if the application > is in utf8, that should display properly for most.Then again, I'm > not a font designer, I can only wish. > > 2. The application can provide the UI that is a little easier > for switching charset encoding. For example, Thunderbird and > Firefox. Provide a preference dialog, where I can set my > preferred fonts for my preferred charset. And from the menu > View -> Character Encoding -> list of prefered encodings. > When user selects an encoding, teh app switches instantly. IE > has this feature too. The auto detect kinda works too, but > not always. > > I read emails and online news in 3 different languages: chinese, > english and french. Without an easy switch between encodings, that would > kill me :) > > It would be even better if I can set my preferences for the > whole desktop, and apply to all applications. But that's a > different issue. > > rgds, > > csp > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
