Re: Unicode fonts on Debian

["Edward H. Trager" <ehtrager@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 2003.12.17 00:24:54 +0900, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> Edward H. Trager wrote:
> >On Saturday 2003.12.13 15:23:30 +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone have a step-by-step description of how to install
> >>Bitstream Cyberbit in Debian Sid? And similarly for (MS) Arialuni?
> >>
> >>I am still puzzled on when exactly what font is used for display
> >>and for printing in the various Mozilla versions. Each time I
> >>think 'I got it' it turns out that 'I didn´t get it'...
> 
> >
> >
> >I don't know whether the following page will answer your question or not:
> >
> >http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/#fonts
> >
> 
> >In Edit|Preferences|Appearance|Fonts, Mozilla provides options for 
> >specifying fonts
> >for various script encodings, so you should be able to fine tune exactly 
> >which fonts
> >get used.  
> 
>  I wouldn't use 'fine-tune' and 'exactly'. As I wrote in my previous 
> messages, Mozilla's
> font selection algorithm is complex and Mozilla contributors (including 
> myself)  have put
> a lot of time and efforts, but still there are issues. Besides, 
> Mozilla's font selection
> menu is NOT per 'font encoding' BUT per 'langGroup' (which had better be 
> called
> 'script group').  Only in Mozilla-X11core build,  the loose mapping between
> 'font encodings' (XLFD-based) and 'langGroups' exists.
>

I wish I understood this better! 
What exactly does "langGroup" or "scriptGroup" mean in Mozilla?  Can you point me to
a URL that explains exactly how Mozilla does these things, and how that might
be different from, say, the xft/fontconfig way of doing things?

Clearly, from a user's perspective I was led to believe something 
possibly quite different about these dialogs in Mozilla.

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