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--- Comment #6 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> 2011-01-20
13:19:39 EST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
It's not that it's too big, it's that it's *not
useful*. Giving 300+ responses
for a particular language is not a helpful bit of information.
Script complexity is highly variable so yes you'll never have a nice uniform
font support distribution. That's how human languages evolved. Some scripts
will always have hundreds of hits and others almost none. You can't filter this
out without hardcoding special knowledge about scripts in all apps that use
fonts, and the whole point of fontconfig and font auto provides is to make i18n
easier for apps by making them *not care* about language differences and use
the same infrastructure and calls regardless of the language in use.
Unicode is the same thing, it's massively overblown for ascii languages but
going full unicode is the only way to get good i18n. You can't stop in the
middle without hurting some languages, and you can't evaluate the harm without
being an expert linguist, so the best solution for everyone involved is to
support all of unicode, without trying to weed out the 'useless' parts of it
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