Re: [tlug] GTK2: Displaying Japanese font names in Romaji

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:

    Matt> That's a bit different from mine. My fonts.cache-1 contains
    Matt> entries like

    Matt>
    Matt> familylang=en,ja,en:style=Regular:stylelang=en:slant=0:weight=80:
    Matt> ...

    Matt> I don't know exactly what 'en,ja' means, but it looks about
    Matt> right, since I use those two languages, but primarily
    Matt> English.

That looks f**ked to me, because it's not "en,ja", it's "en,ja,en",
since when you look at your fonts.cache-1 you see three names, the
first of which is mojibake.

    Matt> Is that a literal value of 'xx',

That's a literal xx, which I suspect is Debian's way of saying
"ASCII", but might be the way to say "don't use this."

    Matt> Here's something interesting, though. Many of the entries in
    Matt> fonts.cache-1 begin like this:

   "DFHsm3.ttc" 1 "ÇcÇeÇoï~ê¨ñæí©ëÃW3,~~~~~~~~W3,DFPHSMincho\\-W3:

My guess is that the en,ja,en in the familylang is causing you to pick
up the mojibake in en* locales.  I wonder if you could edit
fonts.cache-1 to make that xx or ru ro something that you will never
have in a locale....

    Matt> I suppose fontconfig is extracting the funky names from the
    Matt> font files, so maybe it's a bug in the fonts themselves. The
    Matt> Japanese fonts I mainly use are from a Dynalab collection I
    Matt> bought shortly before leaving Japan in '99; I guess the
    Matt> state of the art in I18n was a bit sketchy in those days.

It still is, in Japan.


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