Re: Javascript and Fonts

In message <c66cfdfe52.iyojohn@rickman.argonet.co.uk> you wrote:

> Peter Young wrote
>
> >> Looks more complete on linux raspberry Pi Chromium Chromium browser.
> >> On RISC OS the accented characters appear as hex couplets.
>
> > It's all Greek here (and Greek to me!) on an ARMini, RISC OS 5.19.
> > Perhaps you don't have the necessary font?
>
> Probably:-( I have DoulosSIL which I thought was a comprehensive
> Unicode font. But among other things, it does not appear to have a
> glyph for: " Greek Small Letter Iota with acute accent U+03AF "
>
> What font are you using?

That is part of what I am trying to find out! I have not added any
fonts to the Raspberry Pi RISC OS distro so I presume it is one of
the new fonts it provides in !Fonts. Maybe FreeMono, FreeSans, .... .
I tried altering the names of some of these, to see if I could get
RUfl to make different choices of font - after all there are probably
masses of installed fonts for NetSurf to choose from when it is asked
to display a particular glyph - but, when I rebooted, NetSurf bottled
out with an error message about not being able to initialize the
Unicode fonts.

My problems concern \pi and \mu being rendered bold. It would be
nice if RUfl_cache held its data in text form. Then a) we could
read it to see which font was being used for which glyph, and b)
we could edit it to get some control over how NetSurf shows text.
Or at least, I presume so. Glad to be corrected if I have this
upside down, by somebody knows how RUfl works.

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