[Fontconfig] Determining the presence of a font / font fallback

[Akira TAGOH]

was starting to look at it again a few days ago.
Thank you for reminding.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <
nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:

>
> Le Mer 29 avril 2015 16:43, Raimund Steger a écrit :
> >
> > On Wed, April 29, 2015 16:21, Raimund Steger wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, April 29, 2015 15:03, Urs Liska wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>
> >>> Or otherwise I'd like to know about a way to have fontconfig return
> >>> some
> >>> "failure condition" instead of a replacement if a font isn't matched.
> >>
> >> The problem with this is that fontconfig has only a fuzzy concept of
> >> equality. Most people would think of font equality as "family name
> >> equality". If that's what you want, just compare FC_FAMILY and/or
> >
> > Ah, before I forget to mention that *again*, there are also Microsoft's
> > font name normalization rules which are not currently implemented by
> > fontconfig but have at times been hinted at by Nicolas ;)
>
> And it is here:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/text/archive/2007/04/23/wpf-font-selection-model.aspx
>
> There is no value to normalisation rules if everyone invents its own,
> please use those since they are already documented and implemented in the
> closed software world.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>
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Akira TAGOH
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