On Aug 26, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
I think Yen-Ju is quite clear about the latin characters provided by
the CJK fonts
that is ugly. I still insist that mixing fonts at the backend isn't a
better approach
than using fontforge to generate new fonts. The fall back behavior
should be
used _only_ to decrease unusability. And the font rendering engine
should make
it clear to users that shown glyphs are substituted. (eg. drawing bbox
around
the glyphs)
That's my 2 satang.
The problem is that for example, almost all rather good quality Korean
fonts are
proprietary, so we cannot mix them with FreeSans like free Latin fonts.
Also, Korean
fonts, like Chinese fonts, are hard to make compared to latin ones.
(There are many
number of glyphs in these fonts, for example Korean fonts needs more
that 17,000
glyphs for single fonts, I think chinese needs more) For these reasons,
we need
font substitution. Maybe I'm wrong :-)