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Re: Lost antialias?
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Lost antialias? |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:06:51 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > > I actually think that it might be not a good idea to change the
> > > default font selection depending on the LANG setting. What are the
> > > advantages of such an approach? Are there other GUI applications that
> > > behave similarly?
> >
> > It's fontconfig that does it, not Emacs.
>
> But Emacs calls it, doesn't it? So we could set up things for the
> results to be consistent across LANG settings, if we decide that to be
> TRT.
You don't want to do that. The immediate counterexample is Japanese
and Chinese. There is a complete overlap in repertoire for the
Japanese syllabary, as well as a 90% overlap in the most common hanzi.
This means that there will be no way currently available to Emacs to
detect the "right" font for text/plain;charset=utf-8 unless you pay
attention to locale. This matters; Japanese and Chinese have quite
different tastes in glyphs, and as a non-reader of Chinese and a
non-native reader of Japanese, I have to say that to me, Chinese fonts
look more like pointillist art than text.
>From the XEmacs sources:
/* #### It's my branch, my favorite charsets get checked first!
That's a joke, Son.
Ie, I don't know what I'm doing, so my charsets first is as good as
any other arbitrary order. If you have a better idea, speak up! */
I've been ragged on about this on several occasions over the last
three or four years, but I still don't have a better idea---and
neither do my detractors.
I don't claim to have worked on it systematically, but with that
history do you think it's worth the hard work it will take to come up
with a "good" generic ordering? That's up to you, of course.
- Re: Lost antialias?, (continued)
- Re: Lost antialias?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/20
- Re: Lost antialias?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/20
- Re: Lost antialias?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/20
- Re: Lost antialias?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Lost antialias?, James Cloos, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, James Cloos, 2008/06/21
- Re: Lost antialias?, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/24
- Re: Lost antialias?, Angelo Graziosi, 2008/06/16