Re: Use english font face names instead of system locale

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 03/31/11 18:25, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
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> On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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> Are you aware that there's a patch at 
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/105900/comments/74
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> ?

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...

Cheers,
behdad

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