Re: Unicode Fonts and Vera

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Dafydd Harries wrote:
> 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.
> 
You are simply ruinning into a feature that as far as I can tell is 
completely and totaly missing everywhere - even if teh program can 
understand unicode comining characters and correctly displays such, 
having them understand that it might have to input two caharcters 
instead of one and decompose it to two (combiner + base) is for now in 
the "wild dreams" category 8-(

The fontconfig and pango "I will gove you what I think you asked for" 
behaviour is annoying but would be much easier to fix than the rest.