Around 11 o'clock on Apr 20, James Su wrote: > I just wonder, if these patches > http://www.kde.gr.jp/~akito/patch/fcpackage/2_1/ can be merged into > fontconfig 2.2? These patches enhance the rendering of CJK fonts. Those patches include several different changes, some of which are bugs and some of which introduce new functionality. I've tried to extract the bug fixes from the rest and make sure they're in fontconfig at this point. However, there are two useful pieces which aren't quite ready yet: 1) Autodetection of 'dual-width' Asian fonts where the latin-1 characters and kana are half of the han widths. Setting the spacing to 'mono' will break with public versions of Xft. I think these changes could be dramatically simplified to just look for fonts which have two distinct widths and set some configuration value (not spacing, alas, because of Xft) to 'dualwidth'. 2) Using alternate languages in user interfaces. This is a goal for fontconfig sometime soon, but we need to work out the best way for this to be implemented. In particular, the fonts.cache files must be user and locale independent; I've worked hard to make sure that the information in those files does not depend on any particular user configuration. I think that means we should find a way to incorporate all of the available names into the configuration, but I'm not quite sure how to do font matching among the multiple names. I suspect we'll need a brainstorming session on precisely how this should work. 3) Some remapping for broken Japanese fonts? This part seems useful, but I'd like to see a good description along with a limited patch posted to the fontconfig bugzilla so we can discuss it further. Feel free to post any patches you like to the bugzilla, but try to keep each issue separate so we can look at the individually. -keith
