RE: printing on the Simpl. Chinese and other non-latin1 loc ales

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Young, Robert wrote:
> > Zhang Lin-bo wrote:
> >
> > BTW, I have found out the bug in the freetype support:
> >
> > With freetype support enabled, the fonts listed in 'font_data'
> > are ignored (see the '#ifdef' line at font.c:904, and I don't know
> > if this is a bug or a feature). Since rh7.3 uses xfs, no 
> fontpath will
> > be found through the 'XGetFontPath' function. The patch of 
> > Robert Young
> > did not work because there was a bug in his code in parsing the
> > fs/config file: most path names (in my system) were skipped because
> > they have a trailing comma (and also I think the code needs to be
> > rewritten to correctly retrieve fontpaths from the 'catalogue = ...'
> > entry of the fs/config file (or one can borrow some lines from xfs,
> > or simply run the 'chkfontpath' program?)).
> Ahaa, thank you - the first feedback on my patch. Yes, stupid 
> me didn't
> remove the trailing commas. Sorry.
> Because the freetype code that Lars wrote is nice and doesn't 
> mind being
> passed paths which do not contain fonts, I passed anything 
> that looked like
> a path from the xfs config file to the 
> freetype_scan_directory and then let
> it decide whether there are fonts there. 
> Yes, detecting the "catalogue = ..." line would be sensible - 
> this patch was
> a first cut which won't crash, it just might end up checking 
> lots of other
> places for fonts...
> I did look at the chkfontpath source as chkfontpath is a RH 
> specific program
> - I will clean up my code and resubmit.
>
> Please note that this issue is covered in
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83098
>
> Feel free to offer more suggestions. I'll try and have a new 
> patch attached
> to this bug later today (Australian time).

New patch available - see latest attachment to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83098

I'm reasonably happy that it fixes the above issues.

Please test, let me know if there are any issues. If everyone's happy, is it
able
to be merged for 0.90?

Regards,
Rob.