Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

[Dotan Cohen]

> If you are using fontconfig, which at least KDE and Gtk are using, then you
> may want to use a Hebrew font without any Latin letters. fontconfig does
> font matching per character according to a priority queue. If the highest
> priority font does not contain a given glyph, then the next font in the
> queue gets the chance and so on. Thus if you put a Hebrew only font at the
> top of the queue it will only supply the Hebrew characters.
>
> This is how "sans", "serif" and "monotype" work. A nice program for checking
> what glyphs you get for the different fontconfig fonts is gucharmap.
>

Thank you Dov.

1) How does one stack fonts in the Queue? I am only familiar with
KDE's Font Selection tools.

2) How does one remove latin characters from a font?

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Dotan Cohen

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