Re: TECH: Testing again

JS Bangs wrote at 2003-11-18 11:00:33 (-0800)
 >
 > Mozilla doesn't use separate fonts for monotonic and polytonic
 > Greek. It actually doesn't allow you to set more than one font for
 > separate unicode ranges at all--there's only one Unicode font,
 > which had better contain characters for whatever ranges you
 > want. This is clearly sub-optimal.
 >
 > Actually, looking at http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/greek.html, I
 > see the following:
 >  * All of the characters marked with a tonos and miscellania appear
 >    correctly
 >  * All of the lowercase plain characters appear as uppercase
 >    characters
 >  * All of the uppercase characters appear as random mathematical
 >    symbols This is true in both of the browsers I have installed
 >    (Mozilla and Konqueror). This suggests some kind of system-wide
 >    fontmap problem, which I might have to look elsewhere to fix.


You might want to install gucharmap[1] to help you diagnose your
system-wide problem, if that's practical for you (although it won't
necessarily help - I've been looking into related issues on my Debian
system, and you can have entirely different sets of fonts supplied by
fontconfig and by the X font server, which makes for an interesting
situation if you don't know what's going on).

At the very least, it shows off Pango's[2] impressive Unicode
support, and you can have fun installing fonts and trying to fill in
the various character ranges. (At least, _I_ think that's fun.)

[1] http://gucharmap.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.pango.org/

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