Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Font scoring method

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

Hi!

Thanks for your detailed explanation.

Committed it using "ABC...xyz"

Thanks!

On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:03:12 +0900, Shin-ichi TOYAMA wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I've looked into the font scoring method in 'dirwalk.c' and 'fonts.c'.
>
>The function 'charset_works()' scores up the given font if ALL 
>characters passed to it are correctely rendered.
>
>However, it seems to have nothing to do with checking if the font 
>renders given characters distinctly. I was not able to understand what 
>qsort() in charset_works() do.
>
>
>I confirmed that adding Japanese characters to the translations for the 
>strings used for scoring works to place the font supporting Japanese 
>characters on top.
>
>The result is good but I am not so confident it is a correct way as 
>originaly intended in font scoring method.
>
>I suppose it is more reasonable to have additional string for scoreing 
>to score up the fonts supporting locale specific characters.
>
>For example;
>
>   user_font_styles[num_font_styles]->score += 10 *
>     charset_works(
>       font,
>       /* put locale specific characters to the translation for this
>          string to score up the fonts supporting those characters. */
>       gettext("ABCXYZ")
>   );
>


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Shin-ichi TOYAMA <dol...@wm...>