Re: [Freebangfont-devel] latin glyphs (was Re: Realization after ...)

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Friday 02 May 2003 1:44 am, Deepayan Sarkar said in public:
> > > For the screenshot (and this has nothing to do with the problem at
> > > hand), could you try removing Likhan and try again ? The english glyphs
> > > being used are the crappy Likhan ones, which makes no sense.
> >
> > Ok, Sagar has no Latin glyphs - will be adding some.
>
> This was something I meant to bring up for discussion. Do we really want to
> have latin glyphs for all our fonts ? Except for the size thing, that seems
> kind of stupid, since (at least on Linux) the fallback mechanism works
> quite well. Why waste effort on something other people are doing better ?

I understand your point. However, I don't know how the fallback mechanism 
works. What if it chooses some, say decorative or crappy English font as the 
default fallback for applications. That can be a major source of trouble and 
galigalaj. 
-sayamindu-



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