[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9810: Set font to wqy-microhei does not take effect

  • From: "pulkomandy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:31:01 -0000

#9810: Set font to wqy-microhei does not take effect
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   Reporter:  mshlyn                 |      Owner:  pulkomandy
       Type:  bug                    |     Status:  in-progress
   Priority:  high                   |  Milestone:  R1/beta1
  Component:                         |    Version:  R1/Development
  Applications/WebPositive           |   Keywords:  WebPositive font
 Resolution:                         |  display
 Blocked By:                         |   Blocking:
Has a Patch:  0                      |   Platform:  All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):

 The app_server has limited font overlay support. When the selected font
 lacks a glyph, it will look in the VL Gothic font. This was implemented as
 a proof of concept, and the Japanese asked first.

 We should improve app_server to do the font overlay thing at a higher
 level, and find a single font it can use for drawing the complete string.
 This would make sure we get coherent results and use a single font for the
 whole string.

 fontconfig has support for this and may be used for that purpose.

 On WebKit side, I merged a patch to improve the font system. However, it
 seems it's not possible to change fonts in the preferences dialog, I'm now
 looking into that.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9810#comment:5>
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