[Bug 531105] Useless font auto-installer calls

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--- Comment #6 from Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo at redhat.com>  2009-10-28 20:55:23 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > > fc-query/cache should also generate PK metadata for unicode blocks, so that
> > > when the font stack needs a glyph which is not part of an orthography, PK can
> > > search for fonts that cover the corresponding unicode block (stuff like symbols
> > > will probably never make it in an orth)  
> > 
> > Not a huge fan of this.  Lets add orth's where missing.  
> 
> So if I submitted a fontconfig rfe to add an .orth for math symbols,
> engineering symbols, dingbats, ancient persian, etc would it be accepted?
> If yes what namespace should be used for those orths? I think ancient scripts
> have standardised ids ISO-side, but symbols?  

Oh, that's what you meant.  I believe there's a bug upstream about it?  That's
a separate issue and we need to figure it out, yeah.

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