Hi, On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:56:07 +0100 Simos Xenitellis <simos74@xxxxxxx> wrote: >have Greek glyphs and they get matched, before FreeSans gets the chance. >These Asian fonts appear to be double-spaced(?) and display Greek in a >way that native Greek speakers are not used to; it looks terrible. It's because Japanese traditional charset (JIS X 0208:1983, JIS X 0212, JIS X 0213) includes Greek characters, and encodings based on those charset (iso-2022-jp, euc-jp, ms-kanji and its families) includes them. As you've pointed out, Greek characters in JIS charset is NOT for native script. In Japan, usually they are used as mathematical symbol, instead of writing Greek text. I think, Japanese people prefer native Greek fonts to see Greek text, if it's available. In addition, JIS charset includes Cyrillic characters. Some Chinese and Korean charsets were influenced by Japanese charset and include Greek and Cyrillic glyphs. I think, Greek characters in Asian charsets should be treated as "Fullwidth Latin Chars" (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFF00.pdf). But Unicode.org didn't assign special code points for them, so it's a bit difficult to exclude fixed-fullwidth-Greek/Cyrillic in Asian fonts automatically. Some intelligent mechanism might be required to do that. Regards, mpsuzuki
