Re: 2.15.0 released

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Yes, I was thinking a similar thing. Thank you for bringing it up and
sharing the idea.

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 12:11 AM Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks.
>
> There's also Chrome that wants to filter out bitmap fonts... Since FcFontSort() / Match() go through all fonts anyway, maybe a variant that takes a predicate function is useful. The predicate then can reject eg bitmap, or WOFF fonts...
>
> behdad
> http://behdad.org/
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 8:07 AM Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It was brought up at
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues/375
>>
>> Hmm, FcFontSort()... that is a tough problem. They use different
>> matching functions in the first place. I sometimes think of a better
>> way to get an inclusive/exclusive list of fonts which can't be done in
>> FcFontSort() at the moment. that should be the same root cause of it.
>> However, changing behavior may not be realistic. We may need a new API for that.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 11:47 PM Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Akira,
>> >
>> > Thanks for taking care of fontconfig for so long. :)
>> >
>> > Excuse my ignorance... I'm curious who requested the wrapper property? I assume it's to ignore woff-encoded fonts for clients that don't support it? But that logic is flawed because of the pruning in FcFontSort()...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > behdad
>> > http://behdad.org/
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 7:43 AM Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> 2.15.0 has been released with many improvements and bug fixes. the
>> >> most important news in this release is:
>> >>
>> >> - New properties, "namedinstance" and "fontwrapper" added to cache
>> >> - Add more language support
>> >> - the cache version bumped to 9 because the lang index needed to be
>> >> extended to 16 bit for the above change.
>> >> - Update Case Folding properties for Unicode 15.1
>> >>
>> >> The source code archives can be found here:
>> >>   https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/
>> >>
>> >> To check sum with sha256sum:
>> >> cf204b89cc979e4377d5fe41a1ce53ba82e7b80d5f94a3294e43649a33d01027
>> >> ChangeLog-2.15.0
>> >> f5f359d6332861bd497570848fcb42520964a9e83d5e3abe397b6b6db9bcaaf4
>> >> fontconfig-2.15.0.tar.gz
>> >> 63a0658d0e06e0fa886106452b58ef04f21f58202ea02a94c39de0d3335d7c0e
>> >> fontconfig-2.15.0.tar.xz
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> If you find any issues, please open a ticket at:
>> >>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/new
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> --
>> >> Akira TAGOH
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Akira TAGOH



-- 
Akira TAGOH




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