Hi, sorry that my question was poorly worded (and thus perceived as a "trick question"). Firstly, from the viewpoint of a (traditional) Chinese speaker, "supporting Big5" is indistinguishable from "supporting traditional Chinese" (part of the reason being, strictly speaking, "Big5" *not* supporting traditional Chinese [at least a small but significant number of characters used in real-life situations] anyway -- i.e., we are used to our own de facto standard encoding not supporting our own language for perhaps 15 years). I'd say that ordinary end users (i.e., people who do not know what an encoding is) are even more likely to not distinguish between the two. And not all traditional Chinese fonts support the bulk of Big5; decorative fonts may support only the "frequently used characters", i.e., the first 5401/13051 = 41% of the original Big5 space, a lot of these aren't even Han characters; I believe this would make fontconfig conclude that such fonts do not support Chinese. I reason that if this is the case it would not make sense for the end user (since if he/she posess such a font, he/she would likely to be a graphic designer and knows what he/she is doing.) (Is this valid, or am I mistaken? Perhaps I'm mistaken. Or perhaps I'm too old fashioned and perhaps we don't find such fonts very often any more.) This is probably ultimately more philosophical than practical, unless an app plainly refuses to work with a font when fontconfig tells it that a language is not supported. Mozilla used to be such an app, but it seems to have somewhat improved in this regard. -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@xxxxxxxx> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/
