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List:       xfree-fonts
Subject:    Re: [Fonts]Font matching with generic family names and language groups
From:       Keith Packard <keithp () keithp ! com>
Date:       2002-07-10 21:06:43
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Around 20 o'clock on Jul 10, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> BTW, how much is this ASCII support important? We're working on a set of
> Persian fonts, and we are not including Latin letters for example. Should 
> we avoid this?

Unicode seems to encourage any subset to include the basic ASCII glyphs, 
but applications using this font shouldn't care; they already need to load 
multiple fonts if they want to display Georgian and Chinese at the same 
time, that support obviously can handle adding another font for ASCII.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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