Re: [Freetype] font catalog

[Antoine Leca]

Vadim Plessky wrote:
> 
> 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.

You are missing Brian's point. He wants something that is able to display
any Unicode-conformant text. His problem is that a number of CJK fonts,
in order to make the file lighter, have some (presumably unused) outlines
just stripped from the font, but the rest of the font (cmap, loca, bounding
box, etc.) is still in place. He is willing to work around this problem.
(Brian, please feel free to contradict me if I guessed wrong).


> 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.

You never went to Japan, did you?  ;-)
Please remember that Japan is closer to California than Moscow! :-)))

 
> |   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.

OTOH, its support of e.g. Armenian is better than the support for most of
its concurrent[s]. Anyway, this is not the place to launch a browser war.


Antoine