Pat Suwalski wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> We should fix that by choosing a better sample string. I've added all >> the >> needed info in Pango, and drafted a spec about how to choose the sample >> string. Someone need to go ahead and implement that (hint hint). In >> the mean >> time, turning fallback off in the font dialog certainly helps. > > How does one go about turning off fallback? A define or a user option? Hardcoded in the code. > The only reason I can think of keeping it is that (for example) the > default GNOME settings should be that the fixed-width font is > "Monospace" and if a user goes to change that, it should be there as a > default selection. Disabling fallbacks in pango means: "only use the first font returned". So it works as expected for fake aliases too. > I take it that by sample string improvements, you mean that if the user > chooses "Sans Serif" they get a sample string that says "Bitstream Vera > Sans" or something along those lines? No. What I mean is that if you choose a font that has Arabic coverage but no Latin, an Arabic sample string is shown. behdad > --Pat _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
