Use english font face names instead of system locale

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

Hi,

I'm trying to select fonts based on the english face names ('Regular', 'Bold' etc.) consistently and ignore the locale settings. Under linux and MacOS, this works if I do 

    setEnv("LC_CTYPE", "en-us");
    pango_font_map_list_families(PANGO_FONT_MAP(m_pFontMap), &m_ppFontFamilies, 
            &m_NumFontFamilies);

Under windows, the same code has no effect at all. If LC_CTYPE is set to 'en' or not set at all before program start, I get english results. If it's set to 'de', I get german results, and if it's set to 'C', I get e.g. ['Black', 'Normal', 'Negreta', 'Negreta cursiva', 'Cursiva'] for Arial, which seems to be a mixture of different randomly selected languages.

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?

Thanks for any help,

  Uli

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