Re: [g-i] fonts: a few thoughts

[Helmut Wollmersdorfer <helmut.wollmersdorfer@gmx.at>]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Frans Pop (aragorn@tiscali.nl):

> > On Friday 02 December 2005 20:23, Christian Perrier wrote:

> > > Hmm, why not having a look at installer/build/needed_characters? It
> > > contains files, one per language, with all characters needed to
> > > display them.

> > We'll still need to map what language will be covered by which font.
> > Will this also work for fonts needing combining characters.

> Not sure. I don't really know what translators listed here. Moreover,
> for combining languages, the needed_characters list are useless so I
> didn't insist with translators about them.

I am not sure, if I understand the problem exactly.
But IMHO it should be possible to extract the actually used characters 
of the .po strings into a file 'used_characters', which maybe is 
different to 'needed_characters' (which includes user entered strings?).

Helmut Wollmersdorfer