Is there any more comments and concerns on this? if not, I'll commit the changes into master though. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
