On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:43:10AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > So what happens when you move a document from a zh_CN locale > to en_US? Does the system still manage to locate the right > fonts? IIRC, in Windows, the system does somehow manage to locate the right fonts. > I suggest that for our purposes, we must be able to store > either family name in the file and match that correctly in any > locale. > > > They want to see the localized font name (preferably in > > the language of the font, ie. a chinese font should have a > > chinese name). > > To me, 'Localized' is a technical term which means 'present > according to $LANG', which isn't always the same as 'Chinese > font given Chinese name'; I'd like to see the Chinese family > names even in the en_US locale. This is not necessarily desirable. Sometimes I want to see the English names of Chinese fonts in a Chinese locale, if not just for the sake of consistency (of moving documents between locales). I know at least 1 (at least 2 if I remember correctly) professional layout programs that allows this on MacOS, so I am certainly not strange in wanting this option.
