Re: [gtk-i18n-list] `.pcf' font not accessible from pango

[mpsuzuki hiroshima-u ac jp]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:01:14 +0100
pottendo <pottendo utanet at> wrote:

>I tried your steps:
>  bash> cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/k14.pcf.gz .
...
>As you `fonts.cache-1' is empty.

>It does work however for some other .pcf.gz fonts:
>  -rw-r--r--   1 jason users 21547 Jan 11 21:45 clR6x12.pcf.gz

>> Step 3. Check gtk2
>
>The font in the example above ("clR6x12.pcf.gz" 0
>"CleanHACKED:style=Regular: ...) can be chosen from the file selector
>and seems to be really the xfont (compared with xfontsel visually).

I see. I think, except of TTF, fc-cache is only effective
for ASCII fonts. Yet I'm not sure if libfontconfig returns
BDF/PCF to Pango if font.cache-1 includes suitable entry for
non-ASCII BDF/PCF, but I think the renderer (Xft) itself
can use non-ASCII BDF/PCF. Maybe, this issue is caused by
fontconfig.