Re: Pango-WARNING failed to choose a font

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Try strace'ing to see what files pango is trying to access and go from there.
 There's not much else I can suggest.

behdad

On 09/21/10 13:53, William Mok wrote:
> If you know the part of the code that I should investigate, then I can
> see if I can do some debugging.
> 
> Which file or which functions should I pay attention? Thanks.
> 
> --- On *Tue, 9/21/10, Behdad Esfahbod /<behdad behdad org>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
>     Subject: Re: Pango-WARNING failed to choose a font
>     To: "William Mok" <wmok6600 yahoo com>
>     Cc: gtk-i18n-list gnome org
>     Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 10:48 AM
> 
>     On 09/21/10 13:45, William Mok wrote:
>     > Thanks.
>     >
>     > fc-match returns
>     > Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
>     >
>     > Apparently pango does not like this,
>     >
>     > (gtk-demo:3274): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect
>     ugly
>     > output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'
>     >
>     > (gtk-demo:3274): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect
>     ugly
>     > output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'
>     >
>     > **** so, how do I get fc-match to return something else? Or what
>     kind of
>     > font I need to install?
> 
>     Donno.  Something wrong with your pango installation.
> 
>     behdad
> 
>