Re: improvement of font selection

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Kenichi Handa wrote:

> Just a short reply to the last part.
>
> In article <Pine LNX 4 58 0603280217470 21196 epoch cs>, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu> writes:
>
> > Well, yes, it's a big pain when people stuff (crappy) glyphs for
> > lots of different scripts in a font.  The solution is to not use
> > (or completely blacklist) FreeSans in the first place.
>
> That's not acceptable because FreeSans/FreeSerif/FreeMono
> series are quite good/handy for rendering
> Latin/Greek/Cyrillic/Ethiopic/symbols/etc.  We can't blame
> them for not supporting all scripts.

Then make a Latin/Greek/Cyrillic font out of it.  This very
thread is a proof that they should be blamed...

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