Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Locale font selection

[Shin-ichi T. <dol...@wm...>]

Thanks Mark,

Seeing your commit "3849480fd490bc7bf705a20b908b2201cbd22013", I added the
locations of locale fonts on top of the directory list in the "fonts.conf"
as follows and found the expected localized fontname for "ja.ttf" in the
debug message.

  <dir prefix="cwd">data/fonts/locale</dir>
  <dir prefix="cwd">data/fonts</dir>

This changes the locale font when using "text" or "label" tools, but does not
change the UI font.

I will see more.


On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 00:08:11 -0500, Mark K. Kim wrote:
>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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