Re: Font Problems

[Eric Mader <mader jtcsv com>]

At 11:53 AM 8/23/2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> You probably have a non-gzipped pcf version of clearlyu somewhere
> in /usr/share/fonts or /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
>
> Unfortunately, it's really hard to work around the problem of
> fonts that have Arabic glyphs but no GSUB table, because fontconfig
> works only by straight coverage, and it will have already said
> "clearlyu has these glyphs, I don't need to add another font"
> before Pango even gets involved at all.

It seems to me that passing the ClearlyU font to the arabic-xft shaper is 
just plain wrong. That shaper needs to be called with an OpenType font. We 
need to arrange things so that this shaper is never invoked with a non-OT 
font. Perhaps it should be given a chance to examine the font and say "no 
thanks. I can't use that font." so that another shaper can be invoked...

> Regards,
>                                         Owen

Regards,
Eric