Re: [Freetype] font catalog

[Vadim Plessky]

On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:36, Brian Stell wrote:
|   Vadim Plessky wrote:
|   > ...
|   > I guess you are working in wrong direction. Instead of doing things
|   > described by you above, what about to create set of fonts which have
|   > all necessary glyphs?
|
|   Are you proposing to produce a series of fonts each with all 40,000+
|   in-use Unicode points?
|

No.
I propose to produce something like Arial/Times New Roman in Windows.
Arial has 1296 glyphs.
I even think that Latin-2 + Cyrillic is enough for most cases.
Number of people using computers with Arabic, Hebrew and Greek are rather 
limited, so basically you need to make around 300 glyphs only, not 1296...
If necessary, you can add missing glyphs later.
 
|   Lacking that Mozilla must do the glyph fill in.

Mozilla has not too many users. And its user base not increasing, I would say 
that it remains appx. the same.
Are you sure that adding glyphs outside of Latin-2 + Cyrillic ranges will 
justify efforts?
>From my experience, Mozilla has very bad handling of Cyrillic, I can't 
recommend it to people here, in Russia. And this make me thinking, that 
support for more exotic languages is even worser.
It's ok with me if you do "glyph fill in", but will people use it?

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