Re: System fonts

[Rob Burns]

On 2004-08-25 00:44:12 +0700 MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> "Dmitry Kulyabov" <dharma@mx.pfu.edu.ru> wrote:
> > May be need to change font load order:
> > default font is FreeSans, and otherwise Vera Sans?
>
> Thank you! You have just explained why I have been seeing blanks and 
> rubbish
> instead of my non-Latin-1 characters! In the last upgrade, Vera Sans 
> seems
> to have been made default on this machine. Probably my error, but I 
> was
> following various instructions. I'm using back-x11 with antialiasing, 
> by
> the way.
>
> I really think the default font should be FreeSans.

If GNUstep supported falling back to a different font if a glyph was 
unavailable in the current (default) font, the choice would be less 
important.

my .02

Rob (who's had a hard time finding a reasonable font that contains 
both Thai and Japanese glyphs)