[Fontconfig] Wrong Documented Type For FC_LANG?

[Akira TAGOH]

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:04 AM Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo at geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> In fontconfig.h, the “lang” property is listed as follows:
>
>     #define FC_LANG                 "lang"              /* String RFC 3066 langs */
>
> this would seem to indicate that the value is supposed to be a
> string. I just discovered, in running a test with my python_fontconfig
> binding <https://github.com/ldo/python_fontconfig/>, that in fact this
> property value is an FcLangSet.

Right. you could use FcLangSet for FC_LANG of course. but it isn't
handy. so fontconfig allows you to operate FC_LANG with String and it
is a de facto standard method.

> Does this apply to the other properties with “lang” in their name as
> well?

No. that is only for FC_LANG.

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Akira TAGOH