On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Jjgod Jiang <gzjjgod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We hit a locale sensitivity issue of font family name matching > in Qt. We use fontconfig like this: > > * For system fonts, we query the list of fonts with FcFontList() > Âand store the first family name of each result in a list, > Âthese family names are always locale aware because the results > Âreturned by FcFontList() are always locale aware. > > * For application fonts, we construct a FTFace from the data and > Âuse FcFreeTypeQueryFace to get a FcPattern from it, then get > Âthe first family name in the pattern returned, store it in a > Âlist. However, the family names returned in this pattern are > Â*NOT* locale aware. > > The problem of above methods is the family names from the > application font list cannot be used to query a font in the > first family name list. > > For instance, if I have the font "SimSun.ttc", my locale is > zh_CN.UTF-8, then the first list will have "åä" while the > application font list will have "SimSun". > > Possible solutions will be make the family names in the pattern > returned by FcFreeTypeQueryFace locale aware, or at least let > us to get id of family name in locale aware manner, currently > all the locale related functions in fontconfig are private, > thus we cannot reproduce the entire locale matching process > without duplicate fontconfig code in Qt. > > Any suggestions? Anyone have any opinion about this question? If there is no objection, I can provide a patch for it, but I just need to make sure the maintainer is willing to integrate such a change. - Jiang _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
