[Fonts]Re: fontconfig and generic family names
On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 23:51:44 +, Keith Packard wrote: Around 2 o'clock on Dec 3, Braden McDaniel wrote: I'm still stumped by this. I've condensed the problem to this C program: Fontconfig is still not easy enough to use. Your example skipped two required steps in matching fonts. Try this instead: [snip] Ah, that's it. Thanks! Braden ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts]zh-hk font support/priority in Xft
Around 2 o'clock on Dec 5, Anthony Fok wrote: The PUA mapping is a distinguishing feature of a HKSCS font. Hmm. I removed these hoping that the remaining standard codepoints would serve to correctly identify HKSCS fonts. I'm not entirely sanguine about using PUA codepoints in this way, but it appears we don't have a better option. $ fc-list :lang=zh-hk # It doesn't show all the fonts. Strange. That's a bug. Fontconfig uses the OS/2 code page range bits to detect Han style preferences. Fonts supporting only a single Han code page range bit (there are bits for Japanese, traditional Chinese, Korean and simplified Chinese) are not allowed to advertise support for other Han languages, even if they have sufficient support. This ensures that GB18030 fonts aren't marked as supporting zh-TW, zh-HK and ja. The DynaComware MingLiU_HKSCS is marked with the traditional Chinese bit which was mapped only to zh-TW, so it was not even checked for zh-HK support. I've composed a patch that maps traditional Chinese to zh-HK, zh-MO and zh-TW and maps simplified Chinese to zh-CN and zh-SG. By creating a new language hk, you bypassed this extra check. I'll submit this patch along with the orthography update. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts]zh-hk font support/priority in Xft
Hello Keith, Wow, you are really fast! I didn't expect to receive a reply within minutes, but yes, I am really grateful that you have been so responsive and helpful. :-) On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:39:05AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: Around 2 o'clock on Dec 5, Anthony Fok wrote: The PUA mapping is a distinguishing feature of a HKSCS font. Hmm. I removed these hoping that the remaining standard codepoints would serve to correctly identify HKSCS fonts. I'm not entirely sanguine about using PUA codepoints in this way, but it appears we don't have a better option. I see your point. I guess the reason using PUA is safe in this case because nearly all HKSCS fonts, at least within these few years, will provide mapping to PUA as a fallback, especially for the 1650+ characters above U+2. There are still too many software limited within the BMP, especially for legacy systems like Windows 98. ;-) On the other hand, in the future, if a large CJK + CJK A + CJK B font (without HKSCS compatibility PUA) comes along... Hmm... do the *.orth support either or, say F308|2010C? grin, duck, run ;-) Thanks again, and cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling ThizLinux Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts]List archives?
Sorry if this has already been said, but I can't seem to dig up anything newer than May of 2000. Any pointers? Am I just missing something simple (I hope)? - Mark Leisher Computing Research LabBut blogging's political bias New Mexico State University is not so much left/right as Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL anti-idiot. Las Cruces, NM 88003 -- Glenn Reynolds ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts]List archives?
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Mark Leisher wrote: Sorry if this has already been said, but I can't seem to dig up anything newer than May of 2000. Any pointers? Am I just missing something simple (I hope)? Mark, you are right -- the www.xfree86.org/pipermail/ had silently disappeared, and no announcements were made at least here. Keith, can you please clarify the situation? _ Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics Novosibirsk, Russia ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
