About Vera fonts (was: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:14:34AM +0000, Julien Olivier wrote:
> Maybe a naive question, but wouldn't it be possible to fall-back to
> another font when trying to display symbols unavailable in vera ? Or
> make vera the default when you select a West European or American
> timezone ?

The font code actually figures out which default font to use, quite how 
is a bit of magic I don't claim to understand. 

> Or a third possibility (maybe impossible for legal or technical reasons)
> copy/paste of the symbols from Nimbus). Is it a stupid proposition ?
> 

They won't match. You already get the substitution - its quite visible
when its done