[Fontconfig] Last-resort fonts

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Nov 21 22:44:02 PST 2013


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:38:34PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> I don't know how common this bit is, but should we sort last-resort fonts
> after all other fonts?  The last-resort thing is bit 14 in 'head' table's
> flags field
> 
>   http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/head.htm

There is Apple’s LastResort font:
http://www.unicode.org/policies/lastresortfont_eula.html

and SIL’s BMP Fallback font:
http://scripts.sil.org/UnicodeBMPFallbackFont

Not sure if any sets the 14th bit (the flags output by TTX are
confusing, do I read them from right or from left?)

Regards,
Khaled


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