Re: [g-i] Arabic / Persian fonts
On 2/9/06, Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> Sure. The only problem is that you conclude that the overlap must be with
> FreeSans, while I say it is probably not FreeSans as that is already
I never did say that, nor have concluded that. I said that the d-i
environment is impredictable (and as a proof, freefont is always
expected to be present) and that fc-cache :lang=xx does not provide
reliable information (I don't remember to have seen anything but Gargi
at a time when people said that "it seems a freefont problem" when hi
didn't render correctly).
> So, if you spot overlap, you should really also make the effort
> to find out where exactly it comes from.
> And so far you've failed to do so.
ACK. Never tried that, it seemed less effective than putting _in_ the
ranges that we need instead of hunting the ones which we don't.
> Blindly stripping fonts is not the right way to go about this.
Why not? I know which font should provide which glyphs and I don't
want anything else. It seems that the approach we are taking right now
is backward. Look on the inventory provided by Davide; do we need the
space in all fonts? do we need exclamation mark in every font? I
don't think so.
> I'd first
> like to see a full inventory which fonts include which font ranges.
Why waste time to do an analisys which proves useless if I can choose
which font should provide which ranges? I never chose that some font
should _not_ provide range X!
I never understood why everybody kept on going about excluding what we
don't need when we know what we _do_ need and we should not care about
anything else (be ignorant, is more effective ;-).
The approach you are suggesting is backwards and I feel you are wasting effort.
> The tools Davide found yesterday will help with that.
I agree, but I don't agree with the approach to the problem.
BTW, currently on my machine @ home the stripping fonts is going on
for all languages and I estimate that the space gained is important.
Note: It is really interesting how many fonts are broken - or at least
fontforge reports them as broken.
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Regards,
EddyP
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