[Fontconfig] [PATCH] Wrong encoding for TT_MS_ID_UCS_4

Yuriy Kaminskiy yumkam at mail.ru
Wed Jul 22 16:23:15 PDT 2009


On 23.07.2009 01:10, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 07/22/2009 05:06 PM, Yuriy Kaminskiy wrote:
>> On 24.06.2009 19:42, Yuriy Kaminskiy wrote:
>>> In ttf namelists TT_PLATFORM_MICROSOFT/TT_MS_ID_UCS_4 uses UTF-16BE
>>> encoding, not UCS4 (as can be implied from name);
>> ping.
> Are you sure?  This is what I see in the code:
[shurg] I did not checked any standards on this, but that's what I have in
practice (i.e. on real font; before my change it's garbled, after - all ok); and
what I see in freetype2 code. See original post for details.
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3193>
>   {  TT_PLATFORM_MICROSOFT,↦     TT_MS_ID_UCS_4,↦↦       "UCS4" },
> Been there since 2004.
Yep. As I said in original post, `patch applies to fontconfig from 2.3.95 to
2.6.99' (did not checked earlier/later versions).
That's just quite rarely used, and counter-intuitive, so no-one noticed.



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