<div dir="ltr">The order of finding fonts is setup in the Fontconfig configure file. Basically you define an alias and then you create a list of of physical fonts. These fonts will be traversed from top to bottom when looking for a match for a glyph. Have a look at the fontconfig wikipedia page and the manpage for more details:<br>
<ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontconfig">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontconfig</a></li><li><a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/fontconfig.html">http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/fontconfig.html</a></li>
</ul>Regards,<br>Dov<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 21:10, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> Probably the encoding. Open up the font in FontForge and you can both see<br>
> how the font is encoded and change its encoding to "unicode" (actually<br>
> 10646). The way fontconfig works under Linux is like linking of an<br>
> executable through ld. The first font that provides the requested range gets<br>
> to provide the glyph, otherwise it falls back to the next font, and so on.<br>
> So in your case I guess that the Rashi font did not provide the code points<br>
> for the Hebrew glyphs in the right positions, so it fell through to the next<br>
> font that fontconfig is configured to use.<br>
><br>
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</div>How does one configure the order of the fallback fonts?<br>
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