On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 12:04, Keith Packard wrote: > Around 10 o'clock on Jul 12, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > 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. > > I thought the problem mentioned was that applications were using lang to > restrict the presented list of available fonts in some context. I know > Mozilla does this when selecting preferred fonts for language groups; I > can believe that other apps also do this; perhaps we should find a way to > deprecate this activity. The Mozilla behaviour was inherited from the > core font listing techniques and so is not specific to it's interactions > with fontconfig. gtk2 was explicitely mentioned, and gtk2 doesn't expose fontconfig's listing system at all. But maybe "Mozilla using gtk2" was meant. Regards, Owen
