[OSM-talk] Language rendering query

[Ed Loach]

D Tucny wrote:

> The T at H installation instructions tell you to install 
> the DejaVu font, a free font, however, it's coverage, 
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> is missing some pretty large chunks that would likely 
> take significantly more effort than has so far gone into 
> the font to fill... as such, to render any of the missing 
> languages (listed below) alternative fonts are needed...

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What I don't understand is even if you install alternative fonts, the osmarender stylesheets have entries such as this from caption-z11.xml:

            /* Places - generic styles */
            .caption-casing {
        				fill: white;
                stroke: white;
                font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
                font-weight: normal;
                text-anchor: middle;
                stroke-miterlimit: 1.5;
            }

            .caption-core {
                stroke: white;
                stroke-width: 0px;
                font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
                font-weight: normal;
                text-anchor: middle;
                stroke-miterlimit: 1.5;
            }

How would it know to use a font other than DejaVu Sans even if they were installed? And in case it is relevant I'm using Windows?

Ed