Re: [ft] FT_New_Face

[Wenlin Institute]

On Sep 16, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Brian Weed wrote:

> Hartwig Wiesmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the file path parameter is a pointer to a constant char type. A  
> > lot of OS are not using ASCII characters but Unicode to describe  
> > the file name and its path. Is there any workaround to have also  
> > access to font files that have non-ASCII characters in their file  
> > names?
> >
> > Hartwig
> AFAIK, FT_New_Face eventually just calls fopen()...
>
> On Win32 if you compile FreeType with _MBCS (a win32 define), then  
> you can pass Multi-Byte-Character-Strings (which can be represented  
> with a CHAR *).
> On MacOS, I think the default is UTF-8 (which can also be  
> represented by a CHAR *).

Yes, on OS X you can use UTF-8 for the font filename (which can  
include Chinese characters, for example) and FT_New_Face() will open  
the font.

> I store all strings as UTF-8 (regardless of platform), and convert  
> to MBCS on Win32 as needed.

Same here. On Win32, I don't know if FT_New_Face works with UTF-8 or  
whether fopen() can be made to work reliably with UTF-8.  (My Windows  
XP computer is currently broken so I can't test it.) Otherwise, on  
Win32, when the filename is known to be UTF-8, it can be converted to  
UTF-16, and _wfopen() can be called instead of fopen(). That works.  
(I've tested it on XP with text files, but not with fonts.) It might  
be good for FT_New_Face to support that method on Win32, if it  
doesn't already.

Tom

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