Re: Getting Pango To Display Chinese

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, PagCal wrote:

> I've been trying to get Pango to display Simplified Chinese for several
> days without success.
>
> Can someone tell me how pango goes about selecting fonts to use?

For a few years now, the *-*-*-...-* style fonts are not used by
Pango anymore.  Nowadays, it uses the so-called client-side
fonts.  You need to make sure that you have suitable Chinese
fonts installed, like putting them in your ~/.fonts/ directory.
fc-list shows the list of fonts accessible by Pango.

behdad


> Early on, I had the examples/ displaying HELLO.utf8 properly, but then
> something changed, and I can't get back to that point. Pango thought it
> was using 'Sans 18', that, somehow would display the fonts properly.
>
> Efforts have included upgrading to the latest stable pango, glib, cairo,
> libXft, gtk+-2, atk, freetype, fontconfig, etc.
>
> If I set the environmental variable XFT_DEBUG to 1023, then trace
> libXft, when pango-xftview runs, it displays little boxes with numbers
> in them. Here's the trace
>
>
> Caching glyph 0xb size 204
> FontFile /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf/0 matches existing (2)
> XftFontInfoFill: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf: 0 (24 pixels)
> FontFile /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf/0 matches new
> XftFontInfoFill: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf: 0 (12 pixels)
> New font /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf/0 size 12x12
> Loading file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf/0
> Set face size to 12x12 (768x768)
> Set face matrix to (1,0,0,1)
> glyph 19:
>  xywh (0 640 512 640), trans (0 512 640 0) wh (8 10)
>   =**;  |
>  ;+  #: |
>  #:  =+ |
>  #   :# |
> .#   .# |
> .#   .# |
>  #   :# |
>  *:  ;+ |
>  ;+  *: |
>   =**;
>
> What's it doing with TTF/luxisr.ttf when it should be displaying
>
> - isas - * - * et all?
>
> BTW, xfontsel lets me display -isas-*-* properly.
>
> So, how do I get pango to select it?
>
> Cal Page
>
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