[Fontconfig] Localizing font family and style names

[Phil Race]

Keith,

 > You want me to take a "family" name as provided by the user and attempt to
 > match it against a full name?  I'm not sure that's necessary; these names

No. I didn't mean that.
I was trying to describe that because in our code we accept both
we need to be able to enumerate both so that we can try to match
first as a face name and if that fails as a family name. That's
application level behaviour (my code). I don't expect, or think
it right that fontconfig get into the same predicament
of doing this automatically and as you say conflating the two.
A clear separation of the two is better.

 > What I was actually asking was whether you wanted me to permit applications
 > to supply full names (as an FC_FULLNAME pattern element) and match them
 > against the full names in the fonts as a separate match from family and
 > style names.

Yes, that's it. FC_FULLNAME is a distinct pattern element

-phil.

Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 22 o'clock on Nov 29, Phil Race wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have to say yes, since we have succumbed to the same blurring of what
>>a name is and are stuck with it. So we have to assume that what ever 
>>char*/string is given as the name maybe legitimate as one or the other 
>>and do our best to find it as both before trying anything else.
> 
> 
> You want me to take a "family" name as provided by the user and attempt to
> match it against a full name?  I'm not sure that's necessary; these names
> come from applications, not users (in general), and I think we need to
> expect that application developers can distinguish between the two.
> Conflating these in our API seems only to compound an existing problem.
> 
> What I was actually asking was whether you wanted me to permit applications
> to supply full names (as an FC_FULLNAME pattern element) and match them
> against the full names in the fonts as a separate match from family and
> style names.  This would allow applications to use full names in place of
> family and style names.
> 
> -keith
> 
>