Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2024-06-06

[Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnamara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 01:36 +0300, Eyal Rozenberg wrote:
> Everyone note that in additional to fallbacks, there is also the
> matter of substitutions, where we are doing very poorly when it comes
> to document rendering: We offer no default substitution tables for
> various languages' popular non-free fonts!
> 
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120131

On Linux (and similar) for font substitution we basically delegate all
of this to fontconfig. Maybe we'd be better off doing the same on
Windows (assuming that's the platform in question) and bundle
fontconfig (or the fontconfig substitution rules) and reuse that
solution and ditch our built-in sort of equivalent thing which isn't
really used anyway on the fontconfig platforms (and then maybe that
allows removing the whole bespoke tools, font, replacement table thing)