[Fontconfig] AppleRoman-DynaFont.patch
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Thu Feb 5 09:58:12 PST 2009
Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> さんは書きました:
>
>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>
>>> So, it's the case of a buggy fonts. When we have support for removing certain
>>> glyphs from a font pattern you can use that to blacklist these glyphs.
>>>
>>> As for whether fontconfig is right or wrong, I crosschecked the table with:
>>>
>>> http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT
>>>
>>> and the fontconfig version is correct, but missing the entries 0xE0 to 0xFF.
>>> Maybe there's good reason for not including those, and that reason may extend
>>> to the ones you are removing. I have no idea. Keith?
>> So, I checked again, and you are commenting out the everything but the ASCII
>> range, essentially making the MacRoman encoding equivalent to ASCII. This
>> plain means that the font in question has the wrong encoding tag. That's all.
>
> OK, so I should blacklist the wrong glyphs in these fonts when this
> becomes possible with fontconfig. Fixing the encoding tag in the
> fonts is not possible in case of commercial fonts.
Right.
I was actually wrong about fontconfig's table being incomplete. It's as
complete as the ROMAN.TXT table. The sort order tricked me.
behdad
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