On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 04:06 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Note that the request here is to allow such a behavior. Qianqian has > > been looking for a way to force Pango to use the bitmap Latin glyphs in > > the Chinese font for Latin. That's what Pango currently can't be > > instructed to do without changing the default Latin font for en_US > > locales too. > > Ah, so it's opposite. :) Yes. > I assume he wants the latin from the Chinese so that it is monospaced in > the same fashion? That's one reason. > Otherwise, the fonts made for latin text are typically far superior. This is quite objective it seems! > I know what I'm about to say is totally silly, but I once managed to > achieve what I wanted by deleting the latin characters from the Chinese > font altogether. Then I found a slightly cleaner fontconfig way of > doing it. Actually IMO if the Latin glyph are crappy, removing them is the single most correct solution. > But the fact that it behaves differently by locale is problematic when > the config was specified. In my case, it would be ideal if it were > always treated as in en_US. > > --Pat -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
