Good places for Hebrew fonts

Good places for Hebrew fonts

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 21:10:22 IST 2010


> Probably the encoding. Open up the font in FontForge and you can both see
> how the font is encoded and change its encoding to "unicode" (actually
> 10646). The way fontconfig works under Linux is like linking of an
> executable through ld. The first font that provides the requested range gets
> to provide the glyph, otherwise it falls back to the next font, and so on.
> So in your case I guess that the Rashi font did not provide the code points
> for the Hebrew glyphs in the right positions, so it fell through to the next
> font that fontconfig is configured to use.
>

How does one configure the order of the fallback fonts?

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