Around 11 o''clock on Apr 20, James Su wrote:
> I just wonder, if these patches
> http://www.kde.gr.jp/~akito/patch/fcpackage/2_1/ can be merged into
> fontconfig 2.2? These patches enhance the rendering of CJK fonts.
Those patches include several different changes, some of which are bugs
and some of which introduce new functionality. I''ve tried to extract
the
bug fixes from the rest and make sure they''re in fontconfig at this
point.
However, there are two useful pieces which aren''t quite ready yet:
1) Autodetection of ''dual-width'' Asian fonts where the latin-1
characters and kana are half of the han widths. Setting the
spacing to ''mono'' will break with public versions of Xft.
I think these changes could be dramatically simplified to
just look for fonts which have two distinct widths and set
some configuration value (not spacing, alas, because of Xft)
to ''dualwidth''.
2) Using alternate languages in user interfaces. This is a goal for
fontconfig sometime soon, but we need to work out the best way
for this to be implemented. In particular, the fonts.cache files
must be user and locale independent; I''ve worked hard to make sure
that the information in those files does not depend on any particular
user configuration.
I think that means we should find a way to incorporate all of the
available names into the configuration, but I''m not quite sure
how to do font matching among the multiple names.
I suspect we''ll need a brainstorming session on precisely how this
should work.
3) Some remapping for broken Japanese fonts? This part seems useful,
but I''d like to see a good description along with a limited patch
posted to the fontconfig bugzilla so we can discuss it further.
Feel free to post any patches you like to the bugzilla, but try to keep
each issue separate so we can look at the individually.
-keith