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

[William To]

Dear All,

I tried the font but the problem persists. Initially I did the following to
avoid the display corruption problem (all Chinese fonts are rendered
correctly initially, but after 2-3 scroll pages the displayed characters are
corrupted (broken typefaces).

I am not sure whether this problem has surfaced before, but by setting

#define DFB_SHOW_GLYPHS 1

under cairo/cairo-directfb-surface.c the problem goes away (and the
rendering speed is faster too), but the rendered Chinese fonts on screen are
all corrupted. I really wanted to post a photo showing the problem. Where
can I do that?

Thanks very much and Best Regards

William To



On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:30 PM, haithem rahmani
<haithem.rahmani at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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