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From: | Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: | Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? (Was: Wrong characters with jEdit) |
Date: | Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:24:01 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) |
address@hidden wrote:
Unicode only provides a way of specifying character codes for a wide variety of symbols in the interior of a text file. But without font files containing the order of 64K symbols, the current fragmented font-file situation will continue to limit what can easily be output to a screen or a printer. It is difficult for me to share your optimism.
That's not a problem, at least, not on Linux. Pango does a wonderful job of inspecting the coverage of each font. It substitutes whichever font has the glyphs that are required to print the text. See for example
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/input/out-www/typography-demo.png -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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