Re: System fonts

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

>> From: Kazunobu Kuriyama <kazunobu.kuriyama@nifty.com>
>> To: Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com>
>> CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: System fonts
>> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:06:12 +0900
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>> I'd like you to try fontconfig. It at least works for Japanese. Since I
>> myself
>> don't know everything about fontconfig, I can't guarantee that it also
>> works for
>> you. Nonetheless, let me show you some hints for the usage.
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> I just tried, and it work better for Terminal.app (glyph wide is
> correct).
> But it still doesn't substitute font.
> If I set NSFont as a Chinese font, GNUstep use it to display everything.
> If I don't set NSFont, GNUstep will not display any Chinese glyph.
> In other word, only one font is used to display everything.
> Does font substitute work for you ? 

What a shame! It seems to me that back-xlib was implemented by someone who
might be ignorant of what fontconfig is for.

Sorry for my misleading; I've never thought back-xlib was implemented
in such a way that it spoils fonts.conf.

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> By the way, I set "GSFontAntiAlias = YES" and "GSXEnableFontSet" is
> not set.
> I guess back-xlib use fontconfig in this case (font cache is not
> created for GNUstep).

I'm not sure of it, as I don't know what's going on in the internal of
the latest back-xlib.

>
> Maybe we should write a document in the LanguageSetup.gsdoc about
> using back-xlib. 

Could you tell me it more specifically? What's your idea on that?

Regards,
- Kazunobu Kuriyama