<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Am 19.11.2011 um 13:51 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>2011/11/19 Keith J. Schultz <<a href="mailto:keithjschultz@web.de">keithjschultz@web.de</a>>:<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#007521"><br></font><blockquote type="cite"> As for getting junk when copying unicode, just copy between to text using different fonts, where one font does<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> not contain the glyph.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>When performing copy&paste or text search in PDF, I am not interested<br>in glyphs but in characters. I do not care what glyphs will be<br>displayed. If I copy the text to OpenOffice, I can change the font<br>later and if the codepoints were transferred correctly, I will see the<br></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As you say if transferred correctly!</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>text (it was true even with OpenOffice 1.x, I tried many years ago).<br>If I copy the text to gedit, ontconfig will automatically find a font<br>for displaying the characters not present in the current font. I still<br>have to read the fontconfig manual in order to find how to configure<br>its searching algorithm. Arabic fonts may be a problem especially if<br>you wish to use Arabic, Persian and Urdu. Now I know that I have to<br>force fontonfic to select automatically SIL Scheherezade because it<br>contains all characters. I can thus use both U+0643 and U+06A. When<br>writing Akbar, I can write it both in Arabic and in Urdu/Farsi</div></blockquote><div><br></div>[snip, snip]<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"> The only advise I can give is choose your tools wisely.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote><br></div><div>regards</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Keith.</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>