Re: [ft] checking national glyhs

[Szépe Viktor]

> > Is it OK?
> > ftdump -v /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdana.ttf | grep
> > 0x0151
>
> No, it isn't, you need flag `-V' for that :-)

Thank you for your support!

# ftdump -V /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdana.ttf
ftdump: invalid option -- V

ftdump: simple font dumper -- part of the FreeType project
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Usage: ftdump [options] fontname

  -n        print SFNT name tables
  -v        be verbose

It seems there is no -V in my ftdump.

> However, I strongly suggest that you use already existing solutions
> like the `fontconfig' library, which contains code to scan a font for
> detecting the supported scripts and languages.  A single glyph doesn't
> make up a font for Hungarian...

Is it what you suggested?

$ fc-scan --format '%{lang}\n'  
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdana.ttf

Its output is
aa|af|av|ay|be|bg|bi|bin|br|bs|ca|ce|ch|co|cs|cy|da|de|el|en|eo|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl|gn|gv|ho|hr|hu|ia|ig|id|ie|ik|io|is|it|ki|kl|kum|la|lb|lez|lt|lv|mg|mh|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|nso|ny|oc|om|os|pl|pt|rm|ru|se|sel|sk|sl|sma|smj|smn|so|sq|sr|ss|st|sv|sw|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|uk|uz|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|lg|li|ms|na|ng|pap-an|pap-aw|rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za

Is it stored in the font, or calculated?
fc doc says "This is computed by comparing the Unicode coverage of the  
font with the orthography of each language."
So I think it's calculted, so font cannot "lie".


Szépe Viktor
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