[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 151215] Let me choose different fonts for different languages in the same group

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151215

--- Comment #12 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10)
Actually, once separate languages are supported, it may no longer make sense to
even expose the "language groups". What use are they to the user? It's not
typical for Arabic fonts to have Hebrew glyphs, and vice versa; nor is it
typical IIANM for Japanese fonts to have Korean glyphs.

... the only exception I can think of is fonts which actually cover most/all
languages in a language group. But even then - the grouping would more likely
be by written script, i.e. all Latin-alphabet languages but not Cyrillic or
Greek; or all Arabic-script languages, including Urdu and Farsi, but not Hebrew
or Adlam.


Before thinking about the UI itself, let's think about what the user needs to
be able to do using the dialog.

That seems to be:

* Setting the fallback mechanism for when the actually-desired fonts don't have
the glyphs you want.
* Making per-language font choices for some specific languages.
* Choosing what happens to neutral characters (i.e. which language's font they
adhere to)
* Understanding which additional languages would be covered "for free" by a
font (e.g. if I want to occasionally use a French word with accents in my
English text - can I?)
* Controlling overlaps between fonts beyond the perfectly neutral characters -
what gets preferred?

that's a "maximum" list and assuming I haven't forgotten anything.


To stress the point: I suggest we first agree on what needs to be doable using
the dialog, and then proceed to think about the UI for it.

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