Re: System fonts

[Fred Kiefer]

Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
> I'm agreeing with neither doing glyph substitution in the backend nor trying
> to mix 2 fonts into one. If one want to do that, I think it is better to do that
> with fontforge. However, I think it is not a bad idea to do glyph substitution
> in AppKit level. ie. (I think this is also Mac OS X's behavior) if one set
> a string to a font which doesn't provide the neccessary glyph, AppKit should
> be optionally changed the characters to the font that contains the available
> glyphs.

I want to second Banlu on this, what is missing is the frontend handling 
of fonts missing in the backend font, not some fancy mixing of fonts in 
the backend. Apple has documented a clean way to do this and we should 
stick to that, unless we have good reasons not to do so.

Fred