Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Chinese fonts

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

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 04:12:19PM +0100, John Popplewell wrote:
> > <snip!>
> > 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 :-)
> 
An additional data-point. If I use the 'showfont' test program that
comes with SDL_ttf-2.0.8:

$ showfont c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf 32 "Hello world."
Font is generally 36 big, and string is 36 big
[displays correctly]

$ showfont ../tuxpaint/fonts/locale/zh_tw.ttf 32 "Hello world."
Font is generally 1 big, and string is 1 big
[displays the top row of pixels only]

regards,
John.