Re: TECH: Testing again

JS Bangs scripsit:

> 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, Moz and related browsers will search the entire font list to
grab any font that contains the character needed.  This can produce a
rAnSOMe nOTe effect, but it's still better than ye olde boxes.

>  * All of the lowercase plain characters appear as uppercase characters
>  * All of the uppercase characters appear as random mathematical symbols
This suggests that an Adobe-style Symbol font is being used instead of a
proper Greek font.

> 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.
Font management is one of the remaining weak places in Linux.
I still haven't been able to persuade my system not to display Cyrillic
characters fullwidth from some Japanese font or other.

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