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Re: [Devel] Re: [Fonts]RE: Font family name problem
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Keith Packard |
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Re: [Devel] Re: [Fonts]RE: Font family name problem |
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Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:10:13 -0700 |
Around 20 o'clock on Jul 12, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Where the Macintosh/Roman/English entry was not English; I don't
> know if that was the reason for the current code or whether its
> unintentional.
The reason may well be that all of the Microsoft names are in Unicode
while the Macintosh names are in Apple Roman. It's a lot easier to
translate UTF-16 into Latin-1 than Apple Roman...
> Still, it seems to me that if we don't have a Microsoft/English
> entry, we might as well take the Macintosh/Roman/English entry -
> it doesn't seem likely to be *worse* than using a known non-English
> Microsoft/Unicode entry.
I've started putting code together that ignores the FreeType family/style
values and walks the name table if available. I have an apple roman
transcoding table available and I'm not afraid to use it.
Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab