From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: japanese vs. chinese fonts
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:32:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvljx7p1jy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KlNYG-0002IA-Id@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:45:04 +0900")
>> So I think this problem should be pushed up to fontconfig's team.
> I'm not sure. It's not wrong that fontconfig decides that
> the font support Japanese. Perhaps, the problem should be
> reported to the font developper not to include ungly glyphs
> in a font. Fontconfig can't know how ugly glyphs are.
But fontconfig needs to provide a way to select "font appropriate for
Japanese text". Whether "lang=ja" is what it's for (in which case it
needs to be fixed/improved) or whether something else is needed
I don't know. But it's fontconfig's job to provide the functionality,
because it's not specific to Emacs.
Let's let the fontconfig people decide whether it's a bug report,
feature request, ...
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-02 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 5:38 japanese vs. chinese fonts Miles Bader
2008-10-02 6:06 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 6:11 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-02 6:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 7:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-02 9:30 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-10-02 11:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 14:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-03 0:32 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 11:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-02 12:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=jwvljx7p1jy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org \
--to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=handa@m17n.org \
--cc=miles@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).