Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Locale font selection

[Mark K. K. <mar...@gm...>]

Oh, and... no, I don't think there exists today a way to call
TTF_FontFaceFamilyName() with the locale-based font facename, so that needs
to be localized.

Mark

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 11:57 PM Mark K. Kim <mar...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Shin-ichi,
>
> > How do I know which font is used, and how can I force "ja.ttf" to be
> > used on ja_JP locale ?
>
> If you are using SDL Pango, the font folder needs to be listed in
> Fontconfig's configuration file ("fonts.conf" on Linux and macOS) for
> Pango to find it.  The file is named /opt/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf on
> macOS using MacPorts.
>
> Then the font is loaded based on the font's *face*name (not its *file*name)
> passed to TuxPaint_Font_OpenFont().  The filename passed to
> TuxPaint_Font_OpenFont() is not used by SDL Pango; the filename is used
> by SDL_ttf only when SDL Pango is disabled.
>
> To get the facename from a filename, use TTF_FontFaceFamilyName() that
> comes with SDL_ttf (see fonts.c line ~369).  It looks like the font
> facename of ja.ttf is "Sazanami Gothic".
>
> To confirm fonts.conf is configured correctly and SDL Pango sees
> this font, enable DEBUG and VERBOSE in debug.h, recompile, start Tux
> Paint, then look for this line:
>
> ## src/tuxpaint.c, line 31079 in main() @ Thu Dec  8 22:06:09 2022
> pango ft2 fontmap[6] = '*Sazanami Gothic*'
>
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 8:31 PM Shin-ichi TOYAMA <
> dol...@wm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Inspired from recent discussion about fonts, I tried to test a modern
>> font for Japanese based on the Universal Design, and noticed that the
>> locale font "ja.ttf" is not used.
>>
>> How do I know which font is used, and how can I force "ja.ttf" to be
>> used on ja_JP locale ?
>>
>> I feel the default Japanese fonts (both on Linux and Windows) are not
>> very bad but not the best.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Shin-ichi TOYAMA <dol...@wm...>
>>
>>
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