Re: Use english font face names instead of system locale

[Ulrich von Zadow <coder c-base org>]

On Apr 1, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> On 03/31/11 18:25, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/31/11 10:25, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
>>>> I'm confused. Is there an official way to say 'please use english for face names'? How does pango/fontconfig select the language to use for face names?
>>> 
>>> Actually right now fontconfig is buggy and returns the first style name, no
>>> matter what language that is. :(  I plan to fix it, but don't have time to
>>> spend on fontconfig immediately.  It's somewhere there in fontconfig bugzilla.
>> 
>> 
>> Are you aware that there's a patch at 
>> 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/105900/comments/74
>> 
>> ?
> 
> I wasn't.  But the patch is, as the author has made it clear himself, just a hack.
> 
> If someone offers their time, I can point them in the right direction...


I can't promise anything, but I'll at least look into it.

Cheers,

  Uli

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