From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 19993@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19993: 25.0.50; Unicode fonts defective on Windows
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 10:14:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lhj9mdgn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150306220801.GA16266@math.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 14:08:01 -0800
> From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.berkeley.edu>
> Cc: 19993@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Emacs on Windows needs a font to support the entire range of a script,
> > or else it won't use the font. It finds out which scripts are
> > supported by a font by looking at the fsUsb member of the
> > FONTSIGNATURE structure for each font. See font_supported_scripts,
> > and also font_matches_spec which uses it, for the details. So maybe
> > the fonts you have don't announce in their signature that they support
> > these Unicode ranges. E.g., U+1D49C is in "Mathematical ALphanumeric
> > Symbols", whose subrange bit is 89 -- does Symbola set this bit in its
> > font signature?
>
> This does not make any sense… Before we go to the details of a font
> structure, let’s discuss it semantically.
>
> What can it mean that a font “supports a script”?
>
> Theoretically, it may mean that
> • it “knows” all the characters in the script, and
> • has enough extra infrastructure to shape these characters
> into a correct glyphic representation.
>
> I may see that the second part may be described by one bit per
> script. But what about the first one? A repertoir of a script
> changes every year (sometimes several times per year). How can this
> be encapsulated into a bit?
All I know about this is what the MSDN documentation says:
FONTSIGNATURE structure
Contains information identifying the code pages and Unicode subranges
for which a given font provides glyphs.
[...]
Members
fsUsb
A 128-bit Unicode subset bitfield (USB) identifying up to 126
Unicode subranges. Each bit, except the two most significant bits,
represents a single subrange. The most significant bit is always 1
and identifies the bitfield as a font signature; the second most
significant bit is reserved and must be 0. Unicode subranges are
numbered in accordance with the ISO 10646 standard. For more
information, see Unicode Subset Bitfields.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-03 22:02 bug#19993: 25.0.50; Unicode fonts defective on Windows Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-04 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 21:49 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-05 22:05 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 11:38 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 16:21 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 22:13 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-07 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 7:45 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-08 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 8:38 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-08 8:46 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-10 16:29 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-10 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-10 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-10 20:32 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-11 4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-11 19:49 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-11 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-12 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-13 1:52 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-13 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-13 4:50 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-13 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 22:08 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-07 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-03-08 7:41 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-08 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 16:20 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-08 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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