On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:48:24PM -0500, John Thacker wrote: > <shrug> Perhaps Owen Taylor's patches for the default > fonts.config should be considered for the main tree, > especially if Kaiti is so deprecated. > > Of course, a document that's a mix of Chinese scripts and > Japanese is always going to be tricky if the document doesn't > have clear language tags in any way. Especially since many > Japanese users prefer using Japanese fonts and scripts for > Chinese, due to different character styles. I wouldn't say Kaiti is deprecated, but it just isn't sans serif (it has subtle round serifs), and between it and Songti, Songti might be a little bit more suitable as a fallback for sans serif simply because Songti has no italic angle so it matches a little better with the English fonts. IMHO the Chinese are less likely to have strong preferences for the characters styles, so using a Japanese font is likely ok. It's just when there is a mix, what will actually be displayed seems to be very unpredictable and I don't seem to be able to find any docs that explains what has to be done (and how exactly) to make it more predictable. Best regards, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@xxxxxxxx> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/
