[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #6967: haiku does not display Arabic characters anymore
- From: "pulkomandy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:49:48 -0000
#6967: haiku does not display Arabic characters anymore
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Reporter: khallebal | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
Yes, the font overlay currently always falls back to VLGothic, which has
japanese chars, but not hebrew nor arabic ones.
So if your main font doesn't have these characters, the current fallback
will not work.
The two options are :
* Make a more complete font overlay that select the most appropriate font
for the missing chars (but evaluating similarity between two fonts is not
easy);
* Include a font with a complete unicode coverage as the fallback font in
Haiku. Such a font would be really big and may not look nice.
* Make the fallback font locale dependant. Mapping a locale to a font may
not be easy, either.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6967#comment:8>
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