On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:53:25AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > > The idea is to first sort including FC_LANG, then pull off the head of > that list until all of the languages in the pattern FC_LANG are supported. > Then, re-sort the remaining elements ignoring FC_LANG. Return the whole > list. > > The result will be: > > 1) Strongly bound family names > 2) A minimal set of fonts as required to support FC_LANG > 3) The rest of the fonts sorted according to the <alias> entries > > Comments? Sample code? Seems reasonable, and sounds like it would solve my issues. Thanks for working on it. I'm still a little confused why both your suggestion before involving strong binding and Owen's suggestion didn't seem to work as I expected-- both caused apps to prefer Japanese fonts for everything, including Roman characters. This sounds like it would have the behavior I want, which is also what I got using your other suggestion together with unsetting the locale. Would it be possible to override the default language obtained from the environment variables? As a temporary measure, I'd like to tell fontconfig to ignore the locale and leave the desired language as unset so that your other suggestion will work. John Thacker
