[Fontconfig] fontconfig: Branch 'master'

Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov at ispras.ru
Sun Nov 4 10:33:16 PST 2007



Keith Packard wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 02:32 +0300, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
>
>   
>> There is a small misprint:
>> s/poliy/policy
>>     
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
>> Is anywhere a description what "depends on fontconfig policy as well as 
>> the current configuration" means?
>>     
>
> No, there wasn't. I've edited the FcFileScan description to include:
>
> Whether fonts are found depends on fontconfig
> policy as well as the current configuration. Internally, fontconfig will
> ignore BDF and PCF fonts which are not in Unicode (or the effectively
> equivalent ISO Latin-1) encoding as those are not usable by Unicode-based
> applications. The configuration can ignore fonts based on filename or
> contents of the font file itself.
>
> So, your ISO 8859-10 pcf.gz font is not included in the fontconfig
> database as it is not Unicode encoded.
>
>   
Thank you for the clarification.

--
Alexey


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