[Fontconfig] FcPattern Gotcha

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Tue Nov 29 05:43:56 UTC 2016


On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:08:48 +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
> ldo at geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
>> I figured out that the problem seems to come from the inclusion
>> of the “lang” and “charset” criteria in the returned pattern: the
>> values for these tend to consist of long lists of items separated
>> by “|” characters. But remove them, and the resulting pattern will
>> correctly find the font again.
>>
> How did you do that? the separator is only shown by the debugging
> output like FcPatternPrint() though, it isn't expected to reuse it
> for any other purposes.

This was in the return value from FcNameUnparse.


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