Re: [ft-devel] Encodings supported by PCF

[Marek Kasik]

On 05/24/2017 07:41 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> I've got a downstream report that a PCF font is not showed in
>> gnome-font-viewer (see
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451795).
>>
>> After some debugging I've found that since the gnome-font-viewer
>> uses FT_Get_First_Char() and FT_Get_Next_Char() it needs a charmap
>> defined in its FT_Face but the font doesn't have one since the
>> encoding is FT_ENCODING_NONE.  The font has CHARSET_REGISTRY
>> "ISO646.1991" and CHARSET_ENCODING "IRV" which seems to be ASCII
>> basically.
> 
> Not only basically, this *is* ASCII :-)
> 
>> My question is whether the encodings recognized as Unicode in
>> PCF_Face_Init() could be extended by this encoding?
> 
> In git, both BDF and PDF drivers now map ISO646.1991-IRV to Unicode.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> 
>     Werner

Thank you very much for the commit! :)

Marek