Re: Font lookup ranges [was Re: Notes on Pango Xft backend]

[Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>]

Around 14 o'clock on May 28, Owen Taylor wrote:

> The one place where a fix is urgently needed is for Japanese
> vs. Traditional Chinese vs. Simplified Chinese; things look pretty
> awful there at the moment; but what I want to do first in that area
> is make font selection locale/language-tag sensitive.

That means tagging sections of text with the language and exposing the 
font language tags in the list of fonts I hand back.  Alternatively, you 
can create separate lists, one for each language tag found for each 
logical font.  That might be best as I expect font pattern editing to be 
used to select preferred faces for each language tag.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab