[Bug 13600] New: allow using glyphs from mlutiple fonts in font substitution

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13600

           Summary: allow using glyphs from mlutiple fonts in font
                    substitution
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.0-rc1
          Platform: PC-x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: hramrach at centrum.cz


As far as I know there are no acceptable quality fonts that would cover most
Unicode ranges. Whatever font one chooses for Wine system font there are many
glyphs that aren't present, and know no way to combine multiple fonts to
provide the needed glyphs.

The MS core fonts provide proportional fonts that at least do have glyphs in
most ranges - iirc at least Latin, CJK, Cyrillic and Greek are covered.
However, the readability of the fonts in different ranges varies, and they
probably cannot be distributed with Wine because of license issues.

What's worse, I know no fixed width font which covers a decent part of Unicode.

In rxvt-unicode this problem is solved by creating an ordered list of fonts
from which the glyphs are taken and resized appropriately. That way the Latin
glyphs can be taken from a readable Western font, the CJK glyphs from a decent
CJK font (which usually has some poor Latin glyphs as well but they are ignored
because it comes after the Western one), etc. 

No problem with adding a special font for an exotic range without breaking the
other ranges then.


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