langpacks and fonts

Danilo Šegan danilo at kvota.net
Tue Jan 18 11:04:21 CST 2005


Hi Peter,

Today at 17:05, Peter Damoc wrote:

> One of the fonts, lets say the sans serif one, should have all the
> characters (or as much of them as posible) so that every document
> could be displayed. Language specific fonts should be installed
> *only* as part of a language specific customization. 

That's completely unneccesary with modern setups that make use of
fontconfig: you can have (and actually, you should, if you think of
Han unification, Serbian and Russian Cyrillic italic glyph variants)
preferred fonts *per language*.

Cheers,
Danilo



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