[Bug 531105] Useless font auto-installer calls

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Tue Oct 27 10:58:41 UTC 2009


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Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-10-27 06:58:39 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)

> > fc-query/cache should also generate PK metadata for unicode blocks, so that
> > when the font stack needs a glyph which is not part of an orthography, PK can
> > search for fonts that cover the corresponding unicode block (stuff like symbols
> > will probably never make it in an orth)  
> 
> Not a huge fan of this.  Lets add orth's where missing.  

So if I submitted a fontconfig rfe to add an .orth for math symbols,
engineering symbols, dingbats, ancient persian, etc would it be accepted?
If yes what namespace should be used for those orths? I think ancient scripts
have standardised ids ISO-side, but symbols?

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