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Thoughts on different fonts for different languages in a text editor

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Re: Thoughts on different fonts for different languages in a text editor

#11
On Japanese Windows, if a configured font misses glyph, it fallback to default font (Maybe "MS Gothic" for Japanese). It's common behavior on most editors. I found that random Hangul can be shown too.

Most programmers use far better aligned font like Source Han Code JP, or merged and aligned font like Myrica. So I don't know much. I don't recommend mixing fonts for coding that prefer monospaced font, but it should have a fallback.

Re: Thoughts on different fonts for different languages in a text editor

#12
> Wouldn't it be nice if we could select one font for English and a different but matching font for Japanese?

That “matching” is what font designers do when they make a font with a large character set. Making a nice match is highly nontrivial.

I think you might be better of with a tool that makes it easy to merge fonts.

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