Re: [ft] Rendering chinese characters

[suzuki toshiya]

Hi,

Basically, if glyph index returned by FT_Get_Char_Index() is zero,
the font is expected to lack the glyph for the character code passed
to FT_Get_Char_Index().

Regards,
mpsuzuki

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know how to check whether a character is present in the font file or 
> not....
> pls anyone let me know the way to find whether a character is present in the 
> font file or not....
> 
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Daya
> 
> 
> 
>       
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: suzuki toshiya [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:14 PM
> To: Daya Devi K (WT01 - Product Engineering Services)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [ft] Rendering chinese characters
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Are you sure that your font file (I don't know what it is) include the 
> character for +0x00027267?
> If you are sure, how you have checked it?
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> address@hidden wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I m using the following piece of code for rendering the  Chinese 
>> character and the font file is ming_uni.ttf:
>>
>> {
>> FT_Library  library;
>>   FT_GlyphSlot slot;
>> FT_Face face;
>> FT_Init_FreeType( &library );
>> FT_New_Face( library,"/usr/local/share/ming.ttf",0,&face);
>> FT_Set_Char_Size(temp_ptr->face,16*64,16*64 ,500,500 );
>>   slot = face->glyph;
>> glyph_index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face,0x00027267);
>>   printf("Glyph index is %d is \n",glyph_index);
>> }
>>
>> when I printed the glyph_index ,it is zero...bt  if I use 0xF900 instead of  
>> 0x00027267 ,I m able to see the Chinese character..
>> My doubt is why  the  FT_Get_Char_Index does not display Chinese character  
>> for  Unicode value 0x00027267?
>> Is that the problem of font file ,I m using?
>> Why I m nt able to get the glyph (or charmap) of 0x00027267 and similar 
>> values?
>>
>> Please help me..........
>> Thanks in adv.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daya
>>
>>
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