[cairo] Cairo and DirectFB: black marks on Chinese and English texts (William To)

[haithem rahmani]

William,

the "BIG 5" is not supported by DirectFB font interface.
may be this is the problem.

the following link is a chinese font from BitStream
http://aol-4.vo.llnwd.net/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/Cyberbit.ZIP

could you try it ?

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> wrote:

> > Also the encoding of the font file is BIG5 I think. Does it matter? I
> don't
> > think there are any Chinese fonts with UTF-8 encoding anyway.
>
> I am not sure about BIG5 but especially not UTF-8 could in no way be
> used as an "encoding" for a font. I can't imagine what that would
> mean. UTF-8 is a byte-level encoding of Unicode code points (numbers).
> It's the Unicode code points that then are used as indexes into a able
> in a font.
>
> --tml
>



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