[Fwd: Re: Request for review and advice on wqy-bitmap-fonts fontconfig settings]

[Qianqian Fang]

hi Behdad

you may well be right and the behavior of pango is not logically
flawed. Perhaps this problem should be filed as a feature-request
rather than a bug.

 From Chinese user perspective, Latin scripts and the Common
scripts are both non-Hanzi or non-CJK characters, therefore,
they are expecting a similar look-n-feel when rendering these characters.
For other languages, I guess they more or less share the same
view: numbers and basic Latin characters (or Basic ASCII, or
keyboard characters) are the most frequently used, non-local-language
dependent symbols. As long as their local language does not
re-define these symbols, they are expected to be rendered with
similar styles.

I don't know the exact definition of PANGO_SCRIPT_COMMON
and PANGO_SCRIPT_LATIN, but I think it is more natural to
render the numbers using a Latin font rather than a Chinese
font, as numbers and Latins are much closer.

Huang Peng provided a patch to get the commonly expected
behavior for this situation, if it can be implemented, or
under the condition of Chinese locales, that would be a great
help. I've seen this report many times on Mandriva, Debian,
Redhat's bugzilla and almost all Chinese Linux forums.

Back to the original topic of this thread, how do you think the
fontconfig file in my last email? I have heard complains at
some Chinese forums about font changes due to removing
the original fontconfig file. Hope I can get something to
commit to cease their complains.

Qianqian



Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> My insight is, well, you are getting what you asked for.  This is where
> some people track this issue, but I've got used to ignoring it:
>
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481210
>
>