Font fallback for non-latin unicode chars

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Thu May 12 21:17:21 UTC 2011


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?

Background: Current default Fedora desktop install has the right fonts
for that page. OLPC's image trims things aggressively to fit in a tiny
disk, so our current img doesn't include the right font. I am
preparing a custom img for Armenian users, so trying to find... what
font it is I am missing.

I can bisect the delta if it gets to that... faster methods sought ;-)

cheers,


m
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