Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Locale font selection

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

Hi Shin-ichi,

> but does not change the UI font.

The UI font can be changed by changing PANGO_DEFAULT_FONT in fonts.h.  This
will change the font for all locales, however.  It would be nice to be able
to localize it.

Mark


On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 1:38 AM Shin-ichi TOYAMA <dol...@wm...>
wrote:

> 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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