Although I'm not a fontconfig maintainer, I'm interested in this issue, but no time to review in detail, sorry. Regards, mpsuzuki Jjgod Jiang wrote: > 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() >> and store the first family name of each result in a list, >> these family names are always locale aware because the results >> returned by FcFontList() are always locale aware. >> >> * For application fonts, we construct a FTFace from the data and >> use FcFreeTypeQueryFace to get a FcPattern from it, then get >> the first family name in the pattern returned, store it in a >> list. However, the family names returned in this pattern are >> *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 "宋体" 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 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
