RE: printing on the Simpl. Chinese and other non-latin1 locales

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Zhang Lin-bo wrote:
>
> BTW, I have found out the bug in the freetype support:
> 
> With freetype support enabled, the fonts listed in 'font_data'
> are ignored (see the '#ifdef' line at font.c:904, and I don't know
> if this is a bug or a feature). Since rh7.3 uses xfs, no fontpath will
> be found through the 'XGetFontPath' function. The patch of 
> Robert Young
> did not work because there was a bug in his code in parsing the
> fs/config file: most path names (in my system) were skipped because
> they have a trailing comma (and also I think the code needs to be
> rewritten to correctly retrieve fontpaths from the 'catalogue = ...'
> entry of the fs/config file (or one can borrow some lines from xfs,
> or simply run the 'chkfontpath' program?)).
> 
Ahaa, thank you - the first feedback on my patch. Yes, stupid me didn't
remove the trailing commas. Sorry.
Because the freetype code that Lars wrote is nice and doesn't mind being
passed paths which do not contain fonts, I passed anything that looked like
a path from the xfs config file to the freetype_scan_directory and then let
it decide whether there are fonts there. 
Yes, detecting the "catalogue = ..." line would be sensible - this patch was
a first cut which won't crash, it just might end up checking lots of other
places for fonts...
I did look at the chkfontpath source as chkfontpath is a RH specific program
- I will clean up my code and resubmit.

Please note that this issue is covered in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83098

Feel free to offer more suggestions. I'll try and have a new patch attached
to this bug later today (Australian time).

Regards,
Rob