Fonts - Is Specifying A Font For A Specific Language Or Script Possible?

RASCRanasingha · 03-12-2011, 06:27 AM

Hello There!! Thanks For Viewing This Post!! Well Appreciated

As a bilingual user, I have a lot of things that someone like that has to have

like a lot of UNIcode fonts of the languages I use and keyboard layouts... etc... etc...

My question is really simple (though the answer may not

):

Is it possible to specify a specific font for a specific language?

For example:
I have about four different looking Singhalese fonts on my system:
1. LKLUG
2. Bashitha
3. Malithi
4. another one... (awkward)

right now my system uses LKLUG, but I'd like to use Bashitha since it's more easy to read. How do I do this? Things like setting the system wide font in SystemSettings or other ways is not what I'm looking for though... my System font is DejaVu Sans, and I want the System to use Bashitha ONLY for the Singhalese text and DejaVu Sans for the rest...

I tried modifying the ~/.fonts.conf file... Here's the part I added...

Code:

 
<match target="pattern">
   <test qual="any" name="family">
      <string>LKLUG</string>
   </test>
   <edit name="family" mode="assign">
      <string>BashitaComplex</string>
   </edit>
</match>

But somehow it doesn't work (most probably due to stupidity

)

If it's DE dependent, I'm using KDE 4.4.5

Thanks for any help and criticism

bigrigdriver · 03-12-2011, 03:53 PM

Here is a tutorial which may help you: http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/?id=skindocs/fonts

It seems that the language has to be specified for each font. If the language name is omitted, the font named in the configuration will be global.

Here is an excerpt from the tutorial:

Quote:

language - The specific language that this font specification will be used on. Not setting this attributes will make this specification apply to all languages. The language code and not the language name should be used, for example "ja" for Japanese.

RASCRanasingha · 03-13-2011, 12:52 AM

Thanks For Viewing <<bigrigdriver>>!!!

Although the turorial was not for LinUX

, the lang property seems to do what I want, but another problem arises, when I use this variable some OTHER language fonts change for example Cryllic characters becams FullWidth (and a little ugly), Urdu characters changed to Paktype... This should'nt happen... Should it?

Thanks For Helping

bigrigdriver · 03-13-2011, 06:47 PM

I don't know enough about how the font selection works to be able to answer your question.

It seems to me, on reviewing the link I gave you earlier, that you can add additional lines to the .fonts.conf file to specify the font to use for each language.

That's the best advice I can offer.