On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> wrote: >> I see now why text in my laptop looks crappy (I'm testing Vietnamese >> version of gnome-shell). Any way to set default font per locale? > > Bit in a hurry at the monent, so I'll quote a relevant IRC conversation from > yesterday that hopefully points you in the right direction. Let us know how > it turns out. This was in the context of discussing the fontconfig snippet > installed by the Fedora Cantarell package which was making it part of > sans-serif which we didn't want, and what should be in there instead. > > <owen> cosimoc: we do need a fontconfig snippet > <owen> cosimoc: the current plan is to make Cantarell inherently a weak > binding so that if you specify Cantarell then it will get reordered behind > stuff in sans-serif if it doesn't support the current language > <cosimoc> owen, right now if I parse that snippet correctly, all it > does is setting cantarell as default for sans-serif in the whole system > <cosimoc> owen, which breaks KDE on fedora > <owen> cosimoc: I'm saying, we need *some* snippet, not that we need *that* > snippet > <cosimoc> owen, oh fair enough :) > <mclasen> cosimoc: can you try to figure out what snippet we might need > ? > <cosimoc> mclasen, my guess is we don't need any until we have the weak > binding thing owen mentioned sorted out > <owen> cosimoc: if someone is goign to modfiy the cantarell package, they > really should try to come up with the weak Feb <cosimoc> owen, I'm the > package owner so I guess it's my turn to learn how fontconfig works > cosimoc: I think that what you need to do is to match on the Cantarell family > name, and then replace it with the Cantarell family name, but as a weak > binding > <owen> <match target="pattern"> > <owen> <test qual="any" name="family"><string>Cantarell</string></test> > <owen> <edit name="family" mode="assign" > binding="weak"><string>Cantarell</string></edit> > <owen> </match> > <owen> cosimoc: the test to see whether that works is that > <owen> pango-view --language=vi --font 'Cantarell 12' --text 'Nguyễn Thái > Ngọc Duy' > <owen> should show that name all in Deja Vu instead of having a ransom-note > mix of Deja Vu and Cantarell > <owen> (that's the GNOME Vietnamese translator's name) > > I apologize for using your name there - it was just the first Vietnamese text > I found opening a .po file :-)
Thanks for the idea. I'll play with fontconfig. And you are free to use my name whenever you need to test Vietnamese support in fonts :-) Actually my first name should be enough; 'ễ' letter is only used by Vietnamese as far as I know. -- Duy _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
