[Fontconfig] FontConfig iso15924 tag for autoinstallation via PackageKit
Frédéric WANG
fred.wang at free.fr
Wed Apr 30 00:45:46 PDT 2014
Dear FontConfig & PackageKit developers,
I've recently worked on automatic font installation in Gecko-based
applications using PackageKit [1]. The current patch to add
notifications for missing glyphs in Gecko relies on script tags as
defined in iso15924 [2] [3]. So it would help if fontconfig & PackageKit
would be able to handle some metadata for these script tags, for example
:script=Khmr (at the moment I think only the :lang tag is supported).
Also, I'm interested in automatic installation of math fonts, so it
would be important to support the code "Zmth=Mathematical notation" too.
This script does not correspond to any Unicode script, but you can find
some relevant ranges in http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/#blocks
(especially the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols are important and are
required for [4])
Thanks,
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467729
[2] http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619521
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930504
--
Frédéric Wang
MathML Crowdfunding: ulule.com/mathematics-ebooks
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