[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Control Panel Font configuration

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
>
>> Really, the problems described here can all be solved by careful font
>> selection and configuration.  Fontconfig allows 'virtual fonts' which
>> can combine the best parts of a number of font files.
>
> Please explain how this solves the problem of having
> multiple fonts in the GUI that all look the same to a
> single-language user.
>
> (for example, 100 fonts with foreign-sounding names
> that all look **exactly** like DejaVu Sans)

You should configure fontconfig to only show *one* "Sans" font which
includes the relevant parts of all these other script-specific fonts
for the appropriate unicode ranges.  Fonts which map script-specific
differences which do not have a roman-script equivalent should either
be given names which make this clear (made up example: "Sans (North
Korea)", "Sans (South Korea)") and/or omitted from deployments
targeted at roman-script language groups, with a fontconfig which
directs the use of an appropriate alias font ("Sans", which has
compromise glyphs for Korean, listed as an alias for both "Sans (North
Korea)" and "Sans (South Korea)").
 --scott

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