On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:40:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I assume this was because the glyphs needed are not in freefont? > > Yes. The Ethiopic Unicode Bloc: U+1200-U+1399
just checked and the above range is not in Freefont and Dejavu either > > Are there any overlaps with the freefont udeb? Should any of those overlaps > > be excluded? > > The font overlaps in the Latin base range: U+0020-U+00FF (actually, > the font also covers ISO-8859-1), that's all. according to some tests done a while ago with CJK fonts, better results are achieved if each separate font provides its own latin letters (different fonts use different metrics for their glyphs), so the fonts should be fine like this. I've prepared a pdf file [1] with all the glyphs provided by the font. regards, Davide [1] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ttf-sil-abyssinica.pdf
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