Re: Unicode Fonts and Vera (was: Encoding problem with Azerbaijani translations of ISO-3166 names)

[Dafydd Harries <daf muse 19inch net>]

Ar 04/02/2004 am 17:55, ysgrifennodd Pablo Saratxaga:
> They lack a lot of glyphs: polish, romanian, esperanto, vietnamese,
> maltese, lithuanian, latvian, hungarian, welsh, azeri are some of
> the not covered languages (or maybe some of the accented chars can be
> composed on the fly with opentype method? still, with the existing
> accents in the font, it will suffice only for romanian and welsh)
> Most of the missing glyphs could easily be added, as glyphs with the
> same diacritics are already present.
> The only real new ones are: the schwa, vietnamese ohorn and uhorn.

In my experience, glyphs are not composed automatically. I'm not sure
where the deficiency lies. However, my understanding is that Fontconfig
will tend not to select a font unless it contains all the glyphs
necessary for rendering the language of the locale. I don't consider my
understanding of Fontconfig to be very good though.

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Dafydd