On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 12:14, Keith Packard wrote: > Around 11 o'clock on Jul 12, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > when a key is referred > > to as having the value "foo,bar", there are three possible > > interpretations of that: > > > > * A string containing an embedded comma > > * A pattern with multiple values with the same key > > * A pattern with a single value with a composite type (LangSet) > > and the winner is 2) -- foo,bar represents a pattern with multiple values > for the same key. LangSets and Charsets were designed to be a more compact > representation of this idea for those specific kinds of values; I think > there are some places where the fact that they are stored in a single > entry are exposed to the user and I'd like to close those holes. What about in <match><test>? What does <string>times,courier</string> <lang>en,de</lang> Mean there? If it means "an embedded comma" then I would suggest that fontconfig should probably print a warning like: "Interpreting ',' as part of value" because otherwise, people will definitely get confused. (the docs say currently "These elements hold a single value of the indicated type.") Regards, Owen
