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Re: etc/HELLO markup etc.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: etc/HELLO markup etc. |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 09:37:33 +0200 |
> From: handa <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 16:23:24 +0900
>
> > I'm not yet sure this is only about Han unification. Using charsets
> > for specifying fonts is a general feature in Emacs, which can be used
> > to control which fonts are selected independently of what the OS
> > facilities such as fontconfig do.
>
> > I hope Handa-san will be able to comment on this stuff.
>
> > If Han unification is the only important user of the charset property,
> > then yes, we could remove the rest of the charset info from HELLO.
>
> Long ago, the quality of fonts designed for a specific regacy charset
> were far better than so-called Unicode fonts even for non-Han charaters.
> So, the charset information for non-Han charsets did have some meaning.
> But, I don't know the current situation. Perhaps, it is good to remove
> them and wait for complaint from users.
Thanks.
What about using the charset information in general for font
selection? Do you think this is a valuable feature, or was it again
designed only due to the issues you mention above with fonts designed
for legacy charsets?
- Re: etc/HELLO markup etc., (continued)
Re: etc/HELLO markup etc., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/28
Re: etc/HELLO markup etc., handa, 2018/12/29
- Re: etc/HELLO markup etc.,
Eli Zaretskii <=