[Fontconfig] asian font configuration

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Tue Dec 14 06:09:46 EST 2004


Around 8 o'clock on Dec 13, Ambrose Li wrote:

> That said, I still imagine the fonts that are missing the hanja
> would likely to also be "decorative" in nature, or used for
> emphasis, etc.

The question is whether Hanja is still present in any significant fraction 
of Korean texts; if so, then these "decorative" faces might be thought of 
as equivalent to a Latin font without accents -- usable if specifically 
requested by name, but not otherwise presented to the user as a reasonable 
font to use.

-keith


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