Font fallback for non-latin unicode chars

[Paul Flo Williams]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> When you open a page with Armenian characters such as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language the font server (or
> perhaps xulrunner) digs around to find a font that has that codepoint.
> Often it's just one font in your system that can provide it (so if you
> ask for it to be styled in serif, sans, monospace... it's always the
> same).
>
> Is there a way to query (or see a log) that describes what font has
> been used? Or a means to query what fonts supply unicode codepoint N?

Fedora uses language provides on fonts, so you can see which scripts are
supported in your currently-installed fonts:

rpm -q --whatprovides 'font(:lang=hy)'

or in fonts you may not have installed:

yum whatprovides 'font(:lang=hy)'

-- 
Paul Flo Williams
http://hisdeedsaredust.com/category/fonts/feed