[cl-pdf-devel] Re: [cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode?

[Peter Seibel]

Peter Seibel wrote:

> Using Gentium I still have two problems. One is when I try to include 
> the characters U+6e05 and U+6167 (Chinese characters) it succeeds in 
> rendering but the characters are not displayed. Is that becauseGentium 
> doesn't support those characters?

So that must be it because I got these characters properly rendered 
using a Chinese font I got off the web. Now the only thing I don't know 
is how non-Chinese characters get rendered when using a Chinese font. Do 
Chinese fonts typically provide glyphs for latin characters as well? If 
so, it might be nice to have a way (maybe in cl-typesetting rather than 
cl-pdf) to define a list of fonts that will be tried in order so I can 
have a block of text that is set primarily in, say, Gentium, but which 
will fall back to HanWangMingMedium for any Chinese characters for which 
  Gentium doesn't provide a glyph. Would that be possible--i.e. can 
cl-pdf/cl-typesetting tell when there's no glyph for a codepoint?

-Peter

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