For the reference of what I want to address: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~tagoh/fontconfig/commit/?h=add-lang-to-pattern $ LANG=ja ./fc-match/fc-match VL-PGothic-Regular.ttf: "VL Pゴシック" "regular" $ LANG=zh_CN ./fc-match/fc-match wqy-zenhei.ttc: "文泉驿正黑" "Regular" $ LANG=en_US ./fc-match/fc-match DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" $ FC_DEBUG=4 FC_LANG=ja:zh-cn LANG=en_US ./fc-match/fc-match ... FcConfigSubstitute Pattern has 1 elts (size 16) lang: "ja"(w) "zh-cn"(w) ... VL-PGothic-Regular.ttf: "VL Pゴシック" "regular" $ FC_DEBUG=4 FC_LANG=ja:zh-cn LANG=en_US ./fc-match/fc-match :lang=en ... FcConfigSubstitute Pattern has 1 elts (size 16) lang: en(s) "ja"(w) "zh-cn"(w) ... DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Are you trying to make fontconfig select an appropriate font without any >> language hints at all, based solely on the codepoints within the text? > > No, not really. that way takes too much cost to estimate. my > suggestion is simple. the complaint what I've ever seen about this was > it from the users who prefer to see only strings in English. i.e. set > $LANG to any English locale and $LC_CTYPE to the native one say. > > So it could be used to guess from it or anything else what languages > they prefer/are expecting to use the font for when any codepoints > conflicts to other languages, and they might obtain the better font by > applying it to the pattern in fontconfig side. > >> If so, then what I do myself is to configure a *set* of languages >> instead of a single one in my fontconfig setup. This effectively creates >> a multi-lingual "locale" for the purposes of font selection, guiding >> fontconfig to prefer fonts for my favored languages. > > Yes, the concept of the FC_LANG environment variable that I wrote as a > reference from bugzilla in the previous mail is the same with it. and > applying it to the pattern prior to do something with > FcConfigSubstitute() may be a bit aggressive here. > > -- > Akira TAGOH -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
