On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > In both cases, the encoding is Unicode. I wonder why Firefox doesn't > use a Unicode font for everything!
The only unicode font covering all the unicode character set is Arial Unicode MS, and it's limited to unicode 2.1. And actually, you'll get exactly the same kind of font problems with anything using fontconfig with different locales. Yes, that sucks, but that's not a firefox problem, it's a fontconfig one. Firefox can only hint fontconfig about what it believes the text is written in, making assumptions from what the server and the page gives him. An example of such problem : choose a CJK font and display a french text with diacritic characters such as é. Most CJK font doesn't support these characters. The us-ascii part of the text will be displayed with the font you selected, and the é in another font, which, most of the time, hasn't even got the same size or shape. Again, this is not a Firefox problem. > BTW, is there any way to know what request Firefox did to fontconfig > for some part of text? That's a good question. I have no idea. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
