On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:29:55PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-11 15:08:08 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > You should file a bug against fontconfig about that particular font > > selection problem. > > I've just reported a bug. > > > For the firefox one, i'm afraid to say it's probably a wontfix. > > Even though there's a problem with fontconfig, I don't think a font > selection based on the language or the encoding is correct (unless > the W3C says to do so). The behavior shouldn't depend on the language > and certainly not on the encoding, and Firefox shouldn't let the user > see internal things such as the encoding and the language (for font > rendering); the best thing to do is to look at the actual characters.
If there was such thing as an appropriate font for all characters that exist is all languages, I'd agree. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and you can't base your rendering on one font for everything. Thus the firefox parameters. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
