| === FlyB is now known as FlyB-Grateful | ||
| fenskl | hi guys, quick question about the font fallback mechanism | 05:00 |
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| fenskl | i'm using gnome-terminal on Maverick with Droid Sans Mono as the system default monospace font | 05:00 |
| fenskl | i presume that Droid Sans doesn't include anything from the CJK range, because it seems to fall-back to some really ugly characters | 05:01 |
| fenskl | how can i specify the fallback for code points outside what Droid Sans has so that I can see nicely rendered CJK glyphs? | 05:02 |
| fenskl | I googled for and found information on ~/.fonts.conf, but my settings there don't seem to do anything: match target="font" -> lang contains zh -> prefer AR PL UKai TW | 05:03 |
| fenskl | anyone have any ideas where to start googling to figure out how this mechanism works? | 05:04 |
| fenskl | okay, i actually figured it out (sort of) | 06:07 |
| fenskl | these two links helped: | 06:07 |
| fenskl | https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration | 06:07 |
| fenskl | http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html | 06:08 |
| fenskl | i can't figure out why it won't pick up my ~/.fonts.conf, but i was able to edit it at the system level | 06:08 |
| fenskl | /etc/fonts/conf.d/ contains all the configuration files for font fallback and selection at the system level | 06:09 |
| fenskl | 69-language-selector-zh-tw.conf was set up with Deja Vu Sans as the first entry, so it was getting used as the default fallback | 06:09 |
| fenskl | i just moved the items in the list around, and i was able to adjust the priorities such that it would pick the fallback i wanted | 06:10 |
| fenskl | now i can edit TeX documents in vim with a nice balance of an attractive monospace latin font and attractive fallback font for CJK glyphs | 06:11 |
| fenskl | this is also probably relevant: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/713950 | 06:13 |
| fenskl | anyway, thanks~ | 06:13 |
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| * Fly-B 呼 | 18:34 | |
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