Re: Problem enabling new language on gdm language selection list

[Rahul Bhalerao]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  What gdm does it is only shows a language in the list if a) we have
>  translations for it and b) we have fonts for it. For b), we basically
>  ask fontconfig "do you have fonts for this language ?". It seems that
>  fontconfig says "no" if it doesn't know the language. It would be better
>  if fontconfig could say "I don't know" in that case...
>  
Apart from these three conditions, even if fontconfig knows the
language, is it necessary that fcfreetype.c has MAC language code
defined for that language, in order to list it in gdm?

When I tried adding .orth file, the "fc-list fontname lang" listed the
appropriate language, but still it did not appear in gdm list until,
the definitions were made in fcfreetype.c and ttnameid.h.

Rahul.

Problem enabling new language on gdm language selection list

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Rahul Bhalerao wrote:
>  On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Matthias Clasen
> <mclasen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> > What gdm does it is only shows a language in the list if a) we have
> > translations for it and b) we have fonts for it. For b), we basically
> > ask fontconfig "do you have fonts for this language ?". It seems that
> > fontconfig says "no" if it doesn't know the language. It would be
> better
> > if fontconfig could say "I don't know" in that case... 
Patch for this committed upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547826

I'll build it in rawhide when koji is back.

>  Apart from these three conditions, even if fontconfig knows the
>  language, is it necessary that fcfreetype.c has MAC language code
>  defined for that language, in order to list it in gdm?
>  
>  When I tried adding .orth file, the "fc-list fontname lang" listed the
>  appropriate language, but still it did not appear in gdm list until,
>  the definitions were made in fcfreetype.c and ttnameid.h. 
That makes no sense.  The only thing those values are used for is to extract
localized family and style names from font files.  Those values are defined by
MS and can't be free extended.  And your fonts needs to use it for them to
have any effect at all.

>  Rahul. 
behdad