Ticket #73 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 9 months ago

Last modified 2 months ago

Support fallback fonts and font sets

Reported by: daveemtb Owned by: Beau Gunderson
Priority: critical (top) Milestone:
Component: Core Library Version: SVN Trunk
Severity: Major Keywords:
Cc: Patch Needs Improvement: no
Needs Docmentation: no Has Patch?: yes
Design Decision Needed: no

Description

Japanese (and Chinese?) characters are displayed as empty rectangles. I believe this is a font issue. Someone mentioned fall back fonts to me - I understand that a system may be needed where if the default font does not support a language, it falls back to another font that does.

I'm afraid I don't know which component this relates to.

Change History

Changed 6 months ago by Beau Gunderson

  • owner changed from artem to Beau Gunderson
  • version set to SVN Trunk

I started work on fallback fonts for Mapnik today.

Changed 6 months ago by Beau Gunderson

  • status changed from new to assigned

A very rough first version of my patch is here:

http://www.beaugunderson.com/fallback_fonts.diff

Changed 6 months ago by Beau Gunderson

Oops, missed these two files:

http://www.beaugunderson.com/font_set.cpp http://www.beaugunderson.com/font_set.hpp

Changed 6 months ago by Beau Gunderson

Latest version now here:

http://www.beaugunderson.com/fallback.05.31.2008.diff (now includes the two font_set files as well)

Changed 6 months ago by Beau Gunderson

  • summary changed from Japanese (and Chinese?) characters displayed as empty rectangles to Support fallback fonts and font sets

Changed 2 months ago by springmeyer

  • priority set to critical (top)
  • status changed from assigned to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

applied in r704

Changed 2 months ago by springmeyer

  • has_patch set
  • patch_need_improvement unset
  • need_documentation unset
  • design_decision_needed unset
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