On Tuesday 20 December 2005 13:40, mpsuzuki hiroshima-u ac jp wrote: > >There is no need to descriminate. Users who expect special > > characters in PUA areas have to use special fonts which provide the > > correct glyphs. And usually teh users know which fonts provide the > > expected glyphs. > > Oops. I think you say: > if one cares about Hanzi in PUA, > he must know which font is required. > if one doesn't know which font is required, > he should not care about Hanzi in PUA. > My understanding is right? If so, I think, he cannot let exactly. If the user expects a certain kind of glyphs in the PUA area, he/she has to know which font provides those glyphs. Private Use means: every font developer can use the codepoints for his/her own purpose. Ergo, if a user expects Han characters in those codepoints, he/she has to use a font which provides those Han characters and not a font which provides other scripts in those codepoints. > font-config to manage the fonts anymore, because font-config > cannot detect suitable font automatically. Is it small problem? If a user has multiple fonts installed which all use the PUA area for different purposes, he/she will have to pick the font manually. fontconfig _cannot_ know which of the fonts the user wants to use in which situation. Cheers Arne -- Arne Götje (高盛華) <arne linux org tw> PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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