[Fontconfig] Regularizing contains operator semantics

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Sat Jul 12 11:46:12 PDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 01:00, Ambrose Li wrote:

> With the current version of fontconfig (and gtk2), it is getting
> difficult to get X applications to let me use, for example, a
> Japanese font for traditional Chinese, even if the font is
> perfectly fine for the task I do, because the application will
> believe the fontconfig notion of "support" for my locale, and
> filter out all the "unsupported" fonts.  I think it
> counter-productive to put so much trust in the mechanical notion
> of "complete code space coverage".

Can you give a concrete example? As Keith said, if you specify
a font explicitly, you'll get that font for every character
it contains.

Regards,
						Owen





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