Hello,

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:52, Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> To: "Lucian Adrian Grijincu" <[email protected]>
>
>> > The font is quite limited with respect to character coverage. For
>> > example it does not have all characters required for the Romanian
>> > language (I've recently added those characters and sent a message to
>> > the maintainer).
>> >
>> > I suggest the other language teams see if the font has support for
>> > all
>> > characters needed for their language.
>>
>> I see now why text in my laptop looks crappy (I'm testing Vietnamese
>> version of gnome-shell). Any way to set default font per locale?
>
> Bit in a hurry at the monent, so I'll quote a relevant IRC conversation from 
> yesterday that hopefully points you in the right direction. Let us know how 
> it turns out. This was in the context of discussing the fontconfig snippet 
> installed by the Fedora Cantarell package which was making it part of 
> sans-serif which we didn't want, and what should be in there instead.
>
> <owen>  cosimoc: we do need a fontconfig snippet
> <owen>  cosimoc: the current plan is to make Cantarell inherently a weak 
> binding so that if you specify Cantarell then it will get reordered behind 
> stuff in sans-serif if it doesn't support the current language
> <cosimoc>       owen, right now if I parse that snippet correctly, all it 
> does is setting cantarell as default for sans-serif in the whole system
> <cosimoc>       owen, which breaks KDE on fedora
> <owen>  cosimoc: I'm saying, we need *some* snippet, not that we need *that* 
> snippet
> <cosimoc>       owen, oh fair enough :)
> <mclasen>       cosimoc: can you try to figure out what snippet we might need 
> ?
> <cosimoc>       mclasen, my guess is we don't need any until we have the weak 
> binding thing owen mentioned sorted out
> <owen>  cosimoc: if someone is goign to modfiy the cantarell package, they 
> really should try to come up with the weak Feb <cosimoc>       owen, I'm the 
> package owner so I guess it's my turn to learn how fontconfig works
> cosimoc: I think that what you need to do is to match on the Cantarell family 
> name, and then replace it with the Cantarell family name, but as a weak 
> binding
> <owen>  <match target="pattern">
> <owen>  <test qual="any" name="family"><string>Cantarell</string></test>
> <owen>  <edit name="family" mode="assign" 
> binding="weak"><string>Cantarell</string></edit>
> <owen>  </match>
> <owen>  cosimoc: the test to see whether that works is that
> <owen>  pango-view --language=vi --font 'Cantarell 12' --text 'Nguyễn Thái 
> Ngọc Duy'
> <owen>  should show that name all in Deja Vu instead of having a ransom-note 
> mix of Deja Vu and Cantarell
> <owen>  (that's the GNOME Vietnamese translator's name)
Sorry, I'm not sure I've understand it. For Spanish, I can write most
of our characters, however you cannot see them correctly in capital
letters, so, would this be included into your snippet?

> I apologize for using your name there - it was just the first Vietnamese text 
> I found opening a .po file :-)
>
> - Owen

Thanks and best regards,

-- 
Jorge González González <[email protected]>
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