Re: [ft-devel] Encodings supported by PCF

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I've got a downstream report that a PCF font is not showed in
> gnome-font-viewer (see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451795).
> 
> After some debugging I've found that since the gnome-font-viewer
> uses FT_Get_First_Char() and FT_Get_Next_Char() it needs a charmap
> defined in its FT_Face but the font doesn't have one since the
> encoding is FT_ENCODING_NONE.  The font has CHARSET_REGISTRY
> "ISO646.1991" and CHARSET_ENCODING "IRV" which seems to be ASCII
> basically.

Not only basically, this *is* ASCII :-)

> My question is whether the encodings recognized as Unicode in
> PCF_Face_Init() could be extended by this encoding?

In git, both BDF and PDF drivers now map ISO646.1991-IRV to Unicode.

Thanks for the report.


    Werner