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Re: Ligature support


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Ligature support
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 19:33:03 +0200

> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:03:26 +0100
> 
> I have not read the code, but Emacs probably already passes these
> parameters to Fontconfig which finds the font and than the feature list
> is ignored, given that it does not make a difference for the question
> which font file to use.  I'm guessing the features are sitting somewhere
> in the data returned by Fontconfig.  They should be present there,
> because that they can also be configured in Fontconfig's files, so it
> can't be the job of the application itself to parse them.

That's not entirely accurate: we do ask for fonts with certain
features, but only request features related to language and script
support.



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