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| From: | Michael IV |
| Subject: | Re: [ft] Accessing localized chars in a font for slash char. |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:56:33 +0200 |
>> FreeType doesn't take care of localization in any way. You need a
>> higher-level library like Pango or ICU to activate locale handling
>> (i.e., selecting script and language for OpenType features).
>
> Thanks for that info. Though I see in the docs glyph-to-script-map
(a) This is for the auto-hinter only.
(b) Unfortunately, it is currently unmaintained. It's also out of
date, since I have added a large bunch of scripts.
> I have another question regarding Chinese CJK glyph maps. When I
> try to read outlines of such a glyph the coordiantes looks weird and
> when I render the shapes (triangulating it before that) it looks
> screwed. [...]
It seems that you are looking at a composite fonts where the subglyphs
are scaled and shifted with bytecode instructions.
> Is there a way to handle this type of maps with Freetype to get
> correct path?
Please don't use the word `map'. It's rather called `outline data'.
We call such fonts `tricky', which you can test with the
`FT_IS_TRICKY' macro. To get outlines of such a font that can be
processed further, you should render the glyphs with calls to
FT_Load_Glyph at the font's ppem resolution (e.g., 1024 or 2048), with
native (TrueType) hinting enabled.
Werner
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