Around 4 o'clock on May 1, Wang WenRui wrote: > Could you tell me how to get this work in source code? My program broke > in this way(it just render letters only, while doesn't render any > Chinese characters), but pango and mozilla works. You need to use FcFontSort instead of FcFontMatch. This returns a list of fonts in preference order; applications like pango and mozilla then search the list of fonts for the first one supporting each character and use that for drawing. Xft could use some helper APIs to make this easier for applications; right now it takes quite a bit of application code. -keith