I hope this issue gets more attention. Can anyone take a look at this email?
Glavo On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM Glavo <zjx001...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have noticed that JavaFX's strategy for selecting default fonts can > sometimes be quite odd, > and at times it doesn't properly follow the fontconfig configuration. As a > result, > we frequently receive feedback from Linux users reporting that all Chinese > characters appear as garbled text. > This[1] is one piece of the feedback that contains useful information. > > We are not sure whether these problems can be solved. However, we've > noticed that unlike AWT, > javafx.scene.text.Font API lacks most useful methods. For example, it does > not provide > canDisplay/canDisplayUpTo methods, making it impossible to determine > whether > a font can render a given text. I found that CharToGlyphMapper actually > contains > the corresponding method, but it is not exposed through the Font API. > > So is it possible to add more useful API methods to Font, like AWT does? > This will be of great help to us. > > Glavo > > [1]: https://github.com/HMCL-dev/HMCL/issues/3104 >
