The order of finding fonts is setup in the Fontconfig configure file. Basically you define an alias and then you create a list of of physical fonts. These fonts will be traversed from top to bottom when looking for a match for a glyph. Have a look at the fontconfig wikipedia page and the manpage for more details:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontconfig - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/fontconfig.html Regards, Dov On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 21:10, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Probably the encoding. Open up the font in FontForge and you can both see > > how the font is encoded and change its encoding to "unicode" (actually > > 10646). The way fontconfig works under Linux is like linking of an > > executable through ld. The first font that provides the requested range > gets > > to provide the glyph, otherwise it falls back to the next font, and so > on. > > So in your case I guess that the Rashi font did not provide the code > points > > for the Hebrew glyphs in the right positions, so it fell through to the > next > > font that fontconfig is configured to use. > > > > How does one configure the order of the fallback fonts? > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://bido.com > http://what-is-what.com > > Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not > read all list mail. >
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