Re: Problem of Xft2

Kaixo!

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:59:43PM +0900, Chisato Yamauchi wrote:

>   But Gtk2 has not complete font-substitution mechanism.
> Therefore, Gtk2 is insufficient in CJK environment.

GTk2, using pango, has builtin fontset mechanism.
(it is always enabled, and automatically build, depending on language
and language coverage of available fonts).

> So I *NEVER* use Gtk2-mozilla.  It has no flexibility of a 
> font setting.

Mozilla doesn't use Gtk2/pango text rendering mechanisms to render
html pages.
So, you cannot judge the font abilities of Gtk2 toolkit with mozilla.

>   The right and wrong of a toolkit become clear when using 
> Xft2.  For me, Qt is the only choice when using Xft2. So I do

I feel exactly the opposite: as Qt doesn't have automatic fontset mechanism,
I very often end with characters displayed as empty white squares, giving
unreadable text.
Gtk may choose automatically a font that looks funny, but at least a character
is always displayed in a readable way, I prefer it that way.

That being said, it would be nice to have the ability to do user-configuration
of glyph substitutions in gtk2; eg telling that when a given font XXXX is
choosen, then characters of range 0x00-0xff should be ignored, and taken
from font YYYY instead. The ascii range of some CJK fonts is simply 
too ugly... or even bugged in some cases. 


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