Just a quick note: 65-fonts-persian.conf implements similar functionality for Persian font families, in case someone needs an example. behdad On 05/31/2012 02:14 AM, Akira TAGOH wrote: > First of all, my opinion on this kind of question/suggestion is, to > let you encourage to work together with the font upstream or the > distros if you want the complete list of the fallback. this is because > it's quite hard to settle all of requirements and preferences. IMHO > having minimal amount of the rules in fontconfig would be sufficient. > we could have an example in fontconfig how to write the rule of the > fallback though, it's not the things that mean our recommendation > about the order of the fonts. > Aside from that, having the rules in fontconfig for the fonts may not > installed on the system more or less affects its performance and > footprint. > > Well, that may be nice if we can provide a tool to generate the kind > of the rules instead as I posted here some while ago. dunno. > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:20 PM, BlissSam <m13253@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello fontconfig, I am a Simplified Chinese user, and I want font >> substitution for CJK fonts to be implemented. >> >> Most Chinese fonts are mainly divided into four styles: >> 1. Song (Pronounced `soon'), serif, also called `Ming' in Taiwan and Hong >> Kong, `Mincho' in Japan, `Batang' in Korea) >> 2. Hei, sans-serif, also called `Meiryo' in Japan, `Dotum' in Korea >> 3. Kai, brush handwriting style, likely to be serif >> 4. FangSong, likely to be sans-serif >> 5. Others such as Li, Wei, etc, is not discussed here. >> >> I have sorted these fonts according to my preference, however, I do not know >> a lot about what fonts users in TW, HK, JP, or KR prefer. >> >> Hei: >> WenQuanYi Micro Hei (Free font) >> WenQuanYi Zen Hei (Free font) >> Hiragino Sans GB (Used in OS X Lion as default) >> Microsoft Yahei (Used in Windows Vista and above as default) >> STHeiTi (Used in iOS as default, in OS X and in Windows) >> SimHei (Used in Windows) >> Droid Sans Fallback (Used in Android as default) >> >> Song: >> STSong (Used in OS X and in Windows) >> SimSun (Used in Windows) >> AR PL UMing CN (Free font, this is the worst choice because Arphic's CN >> fonts are in TW style although it is marked `CN') >> >> Kai: >> STKaiti (Used in OS X and in Windows) >> KaiTi (Used in Windows Vista and above) >> KaiTi_GB2312 (Used in Windows XP and below) >> AR PL UKai CN (Free font) >> >> FangSong: >> STFangsong (Used in OS X and in Windows) >> FangSong (Used in Windows Vista and above) >> FangSong_GB2312 (Used in Windows XP and below) >> >> What I want to be implemented is, when one of the fonts is missing, >> fontconfig will search for others for substitution. >> For example, if a document requires SimHei which is not installed currently, >> fontconfig may use WenQuanYi Micro Hei instead. And if Micro Hei is missing >> either, Zen Hei will be used. >> >> Sincerely yours. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fontconfig mailing list >> Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig >> > > > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
