[Fontconfig] Debug helpers? or FC_DEBUG parser?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Jan 8 10:20:36 PST 2010


On 01/08/2010 01:06 PM, Robert Siemer wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> fontconfig debugging is a nightmare: Did somebody by chance write a 
> script that mangles the output of FC_DEBUG enabled programs?

Not that I know of.

behdad


> The new output could be something like:
> 
> REQUEST: <fontconfig-pattern>
>   edit: family+=...
>   edit: ...
> RESULT: ...
>   result edit: ...
> FINAL: ...
> 
> ...and so on...
> 
> 
> 
> I need a good base to hack something on for my needs.
> 
> Or does somebody have a good method to isolate what an application is 
> actually asking for and what font it is actually using? It took me 
> already ages to find out which font the firefox-flash-plugin was using 
> for some sans-serif Chinese characters. And I know need to copy that 
> behavior on my new system. For that, I want to see if the font request 
> is the same, and why the result is different.
> 
> 
> Robert
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