On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 17:19 +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On ????? 16 ????????? 2005 20:38, Keith Packard wrote: > > You can verify which font is selected for your locale by using > > > > $ fc-match :lang=el-GR > > > > This should present the first font in your environment which fully > > supports Greek. > > > > In any case, pango should never display little boxes if you have a > > greek font on your machine as it will always search through all > > available fonts when the requested font is missing a glyph. > > Right, found the problem. Apparently some fonts register themselves as > supporting the Greek glyphs, which is false, and fontconfig/pango > uses these assuming that this is the case. I'll file a bug report to > these fonts: Fontconfig actually does reasonably careful checks for each font, ignoring glyphs which are advertised in the mapping but which do not contain an outline (a common case for sub-setted fonts). > ttf-bistream-vera (Bitstream fonts) > gsfonts (all the Nimbus fonts) Fontconfig says that these do not support the el-GR locale. > But, as I don't know the response of the font maintainers yet, maybe > it would be possible to apply some sort of filtering in the > fontconfig package? just an idea. It looks like fontconfig has already done this work. -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050817/0eb294a4/attachment.pgp
