[Haiku-commits] r29684 - haiku/trunk/src/preferences/keymap

[Jorge G. Mare]

Rene Gollent said on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:42:12 -0500
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki at haikuzone.net> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I suspect the default font does not have all the glyphs that may be
> > needed by certain languages; in such cases, the ability to switch 
> > fonts
> > is required.
> 
> Not necessarily ; I don't know how easily feasible this is with
> Freetype and our current app_server, but what Dano (5.1d0) did for
> instance was its FontFusion engine was capable of detecting missing
> glyphs and overlaying them on the fly from other fonts that did
> contain them. Perhaps we could implement something similiar.

Yes, font overlay would certainly work; but Haiku does not have this 
yet.

I vaguely recall Axel saying that font overlay would be implemented at 
some point in time, so I suppose it's possible (but maybe not trivial?)
. Until that happens, it would be a good idea to retain font switching 
in this applet.

As usual, all FWIW and IMHO disclaimers apply. :)

Cheers,

Jorge