On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 11:19:46PM -0700, AR Garbe wrote: > On 23 September 2018 at 11:56, Eric Pruitt <eric.pru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not just about Emoji or anti-aliasing. If you work with languages > > that use non-Latin characters, support for fallback fonts is a must. > > Well, are you using st with glyphs that require fallback fonts? > I wonder if at suckless we should aim for the general purpose.
Yes, st's fallback font support is the main reason I began to use it. I use st and dwm with Japanese and Chinese text almost every single day. > I weigh code clarity and consistency higher than being able to render > all kinds of glyphs through fallback font declarations. > If a user needs to display cyrillic, there are plain old xfonts with > excellent support. If supporting languages spoken by billions of people isn't reason enough for you, then there's not much point in me arguing because I can't come up with a better rationale. Eric
