Re: Indic script support in cross-compilation environment

[Girish <girish a geodesic com>]

Harshvardhan Ketkar wrote:
> On 12/09/2007, *Girish* <girish a geodesic com 
> <mailto:girish a geodesic com>> wrote:
>
>     Harsh Ketkar wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 12/09/2007, *Behdad Esfahbod* <behdad behdad org
>     <mailto:behdad behdad org>
>     > <mailto:behdad behdad org <mailto:behdad behdad org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     >>What if you put them in /usr/share/fonts or ~/.fonts/ ?
>     >
>     >
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I deleted the /usr/local/share/fonts folder after copying their
>     > contents to /usr/share/fonts. On running the application, I got the
>     > following error:
>     >
>     > No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
>     > library is not correctly configured. You may need to
>     > edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
>     > about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
>     > page and on http://fontconfig.org
>     >
>     > I didn't get the message on doing the same after moving the
>     fonts to
>     > ~/.fonts and doing a fc-cache, however. The devanagari characters
>     > still weren't rendered.
>     >
>     > Also, there is no fonts.conf file in the cross-compiling
>     environment.
>     > The fonts are detected only when kept in /usr/local/share/fonts or
>     > ~/.fonts.
>     >
>     > I kept the indic fonts alone and then I ran the application. Still,
>     > only the devanagri characters are not rendered. The English
>     characters
>     > are rendered properly(albeit in a different font, since I have
>     removed
>     > the non-indic fonts).
>     >
>     > I used the devanagari characters provided by the Character Map in
>     > Ubuntu(Applications >Accessories >Character Map). Are they
>     responsible
>     > for this?
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Harshvardhan
>     >
>     >
>     >
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>     Could you paste the out put of fc-list 
>
>
> Sure. Here it is:
> Comic Sans MS Mäori,Comic Sans MS M‰ori:style=Regular
> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold
> Comic Sans 
> MS:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta 
>
> Akshar Unicode:style=Regular
> Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Oblique
> Samanata:style=Regular
> Aksharyogini:style=Normal
> Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Roman
> gargi:style=Medium
> augie:style=Regular
> Nakula:style=Regular
> Kalimati,नालिमाटी:style=Regular,कालिमाटी
> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Oblique
> Comic Sans 
> MS:style=Bold,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,Lodia 
>
> Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Bold
> Chandas:style=Regular
> Bitstream Vera Serif:style=Roman
> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
> Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Bold Oblique
> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman
> DVBOTSurekh:style=Normal
> Bitstream Vera Serif:style=Bold
> Sahadeva:style=Regular
> JanaHindi:style=Sans
Looks Fine. No problem with the fontconfig. I have one gtk example which 
accepts font as an argument and render the text in the label. It may 
help you in debugging. You can try replacing label with your text widget.

Usage: label FontName Style Size 
Exmaple:
  ./label Courier Italic 25


regards
Girish

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