Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Font scoring method

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

> 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.

That was the original intent when I wrote the code.
You should not need to add any code for Japanese.
Simply adjust the translation to contain a few Japanese
characters, particularly ones that may be rendered
indistinctly, and the scoring should work.