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Merge pull request #2368 from sommerluk/doc01
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Document CJK glyph style choise
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matthijsmelissen authored Sep 24, 2016
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- Noto Sans UI is before all other fonts
- The CJK fonts are manually ordered. The used CJK font covers all CJK
languages, but defaults to the japanese glyph style if various glyph
styles are available.
styles are available. (We have to default to one of JP, KR, SC, TC because
this carto style has no knowledge about what language the “names” tag
contains. As in Korea Han characters are not so widely used, it seems
better to default to either Chinese or Japanese. As Chinese exists in the
two variants SC/TC, it won’t be a uniform rendering anyway. So we default
to Japanese. However, this choise stays somewhat arbitrary and subjective.
See also https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2208)
2. Noto provides three variants of Arabic: Noto Kufi Arabic, Noto Naskh Arabic
and Noto Nastaliq Urdu. Noto Kufi Arabic is the one that is most similiar to a
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