[Indic-computing-users] Font selection logic and other questions

[Sandip B. <sa...@li...>]

If I have to unicode based fonts for the same character range, how
does the app rendering component e.g. pango, etc. decide which font to
use?

I read in one of the docs that the X font-server, which is part of
most distrib causes problems in displaying Indic scripts. The doc
suggested that I use X own ability to read truetype files. But the doc
wasn't very helpful regarding the actual reason behind the
problem. What is it?

Mozilla uses Gtk as the base toolkit if I am not wrong. Does it use
the pango rendering component too?

An OT question, on the Win32 platform, does pango still use its own
font selection and rendering logic? Or does it pass along the work to
the OS own capability to do the same?

- Sandip
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