On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 01:00, Ambrose Li wrote: > With the current version of fontconfig (and gtk2), it is getting > difficult to get X applications to let me use, for example, a > Japanese font for traditional Chinese, even if the font is > perfectly fine for the task I do, because the application will > believe the fontconfig notion of "support" for my locale, and > filter out all the "unsupported" fonts. I think it > counter-productive to put so much trust in the mechanical notion > of "complete code space coverage". Can you give a concrete example? As Keith said, if you specify a font explicitly, you'll get that font for every character it contains. Regards, Owen