[Tuxpaint-devel] Per-locale default font

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

For a long while now, Tux Paint has used "DejaVu Sans" as the
preferred font for the UI (requested via Pango, though based on what I
see in screenshots on Twitter, some folks don't have that font and
some alternatives are used).

Recently, Shin-ichi noted that we have a font tucked away in
"fonts/locale/" that looks much better for use with Japanese text,
but we're not using it (we no longer load TTF files directly and use
SDL_ttf to render strings, it's all SDL2_Pango now).

Therefore, I've added the ability for us (the Tux Paint developers)
to specify a preferred font on a per-locale basis.  It's simply
a language code (from our `src/i18n.h` file, e.g., "LANG_DE" for
German, "LANG_ZH_CN" for Chinese (Simplified), etc.) and a string
describing the font family we want Pango to load.
(If left unspecified, we'll continue to ask for "DejaVu Sans".)

This is now in the Git master branch over in the SourceForge project,
and will be part of Tux Paint 0.9.31.

I'm about to try to set fonts, as best I can, based on the collection
of TTF files we have been shipping with Tux Paint.  Those files seem
to be useless now, unless I'm mistaken!  However, I wonder if we could
install them into the system where Pango can find them, when installing
Tux Paint?  Or perhaps we could somehow point Pango to our directory
of locale fonts as an extra place to look when scanning for fonts...?

Thoughts?

And also, if you have a preferred font for your favorite locale,
please share and I can add it to the list!

-- 
-bill!
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