[Fontconfig] Pattern Matching Issues

[Tom Hacohen]

On 05/02/14 12:49, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 14-02-05 04:34 AM, Tom Hacohen wrote:
>> On 04/02/14 22:15, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> On 14-02-03 07:43 AM, Tom Hacohen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As you may remember, I work on the efl (enlightenment.org). We have support
>>>> for using fonts straight off the filesystem (i.e a filename), or a font in
>>>> memory, embedded in our theme files. I'd like to be able to query the system
>>>> for similar fonts in order to find the most suitable fonts for font fallback
>>>> in case those font files are missing characters.
>>>>
>>>> I would be happy to know if you have any better idea for implementing that.
>>>
>>> Interesting.  Let us know how it goes.
>>>
>>
>> Seems to be working nicely, which I find really cool. The alternative would
>> have been implementing that function on my own, which I was trying to avoid.
>> Too bad it'd only be available for people with new  versions of fontconfig (>=
>> 2.11.0).
>
> Why's that?  It may have been broken because of the FC_HASH changes, but
> should work on significantly older versions.
>

I read in the docs, that this function only exists starting from 2.11.0.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-devel/fcfreetypequeryface.html

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Tom.