[Bug 39185] Lack of per-script font selection makes reading pages in script not covered by the main font difficult.

[James Richard Tyrer]

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------- Additional Comments From tyrerj acm org  2008-07-05 13:09 -------
IIRC, the largest differences are with Japanese.  Some of the Han characters in a Japanese font are the same or similar to those in a Chinese font, but some of them are completely different.  So, if you have both Chinese and Japanese in the same document, it is a real problem.

So, that is one small problem that being able to choose an override font for the languages listed in Firefox isn't going to fix.  But, that would solve most of it.  This still wouldn't mean that it would look for missing glyphs in other fonts.  I don't know if you can set that up with FontConfig or not.

The other question is exactly how doe Pango determine exactly CJK language is being used?