Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Chinese fonts

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:54:55PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> John Popplewell wrote:
> > got a chance to try these out - all broken. I dropped in an old SDL_ttf
> > from 0.9.15 (which I think was freetype-2.1.9 and SDL_ttf-2.0.7) and
> > chinese worked fine so it looks like it's an SDL_ttf/Freetype problem.
> >
> > Will try and look at this later,
> >   
> 
> I appreciate this.  I cannot, of course, make the SDL packages revert to
> an earlier version in Debian.  So for Chinese to work in Debian, we have
> to move forward starting with what's there now.
Sure, I understand.

For what it's worth, I've built similar versions to the ones in Debian:

freetype-2.2.1
SDL_ttf-2.0.7
SDL_ttf-2.0.8
with this patch (so that SDL_ttf builds):
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/patches/SDL_ttf-2.0.7-noftinternals.patch

and the problem with SDL_ttf-2.0.8 and the small zh_tw.ttf font remains.
If I use the original zh_tw.ttf (13MB) it works fine.

At least it's probably not a freetype problem :-)

regards,
John.