Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Per-locale default font

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

Hi!

The behavior of the font seartch methods seem to work differently on 
Linux and Windows.

On linux, Tux Paint and Tux Paint Config seems not be able to find a 
locale font shipped with Tux Paint.

On the other hand, they *can* find the locale font on windows.


I think "noto sans" (pango's default on Rocky9?) looks good, but MS 
Gothic (default on Windows) looks quite bad.

Please see some examples I wrapped up.

  https://z1.plala.jp/tuxpaint/tmp/uifonts2.html

I confirmed pango's default (noto sans) on Rocky9 is good enough and 
guess TkaoPGothick also would not be bad. Therefore, just specifing 
"GJGothicPNSubset" as a default for Japanese would be O.K. at least
for Japanese.

However, how is it on other distro's? How is it for other languages?

I think it would be better if we could find a way to use locale fonts 
also on Linux.

Thanks!

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 00:52:07 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
>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!
>


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