Re: Font priorities

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 23:27, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 23 o'clock on Feb 18, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >  - Simply pick a font you like better in the GNOME font property
> >    dialog, the fallback to the Arphic for Chinese characters
> >    will still work.
> 
> And, once you've done this, the LC_CTYPE based font selection will 
> actually be doing you a favor -- fontconfig will pick a font designed for 
> traditional Chinese rather than simplified Chinese, Japanese or Korean to
> display your Chinese text.
> 
> It would be nice if Pango exposed language tags to applications so that
> the selection of fonts could happen at a much finer grain than is 
> currently supported.

Pango exposes language tags to applications.

 gtk_label_set_markup (label, "<span lang="en">Really</span>");

Etc.

Regards,
                                      Owen