On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:09:07PM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: > >I've tried this, and it looks like it is not working. > >Running > >$ wmiir xwrite /ctl font 'xft:Arial' > >presents the Hebrew characters correctly (in windows title, and mpd > > status area), while $ wmiir xwrite /ctl font 'xft:terminus-10' > >presents just white boxes instead. > > > >So I try: > >$ wmiir xwrite /ctl font 'xft:terminus-10,xft:Arial' > >but no change from previous (white boxes). > > > >I also tried not using xft for the first font: > >$ wmiir xwrite /ctl font > > '-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,xft:Arial' > > > >but they all give the same result. > > > >I've tried to run urxvt with the same settings, and it seem to work > > fine: $ urxvt -fn '-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,xft:Miriam > > Mono CLM' > > > >(in testing the terminal, I used a mono-spaced font - but all fonts give > > the same result). > > > >I must be missing something? > > Well, first of all, you can only specify xft: once, at the > begining of the spec. You either get Xft or you don't, you can't > mix them.
so how on earth can you specify a list of fonts? I don't know much about xft, but readin http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html, it mentions that commas are used to specify lists of values, like 'xft:terminus-10:lang=en,ja'. If someone knows how to specify a list of fonts to xft (maybe even a font per language?), it might help - I couldn't get it from the docs. > Second, it seems that Xft isn't as smart as I thought > it was. As far as I can tell, the only thing I can do is query > the fonts myself with fontconfig and render the individual > glyphs myself. Given the general bulk of code required to do > that, and the likelihood of errors, I'm not especially willing > to add it, but I may consider it if anyone has suggestions on > how to do it cleanly. I'm not willing to link in Pango or Cairo, > for very obvious reasons. > Thanks for looking into this. I glanced at urxvt's code, and it does seem it goes to great length to display the correct characters (well, as much as you can understand from reading C++ code), and I understand your rejection from this amount of code and complexity. it does not have a good gain/effort ratio. I haven't even asked about right-to-left support, but I am going to give up before that :) --y
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