Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Native TTF name sometimes contains crap

[email protected] Mon, 6 Sep 2021 16:48:53 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
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> This explains a lot, thanks. Your version of the `ftdump` program is too
> old

It is the version that comes with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which is still supported...

> it has been fixed a long time ago to no longer mangle the high byte of
> UTF-16 characters. Below you can see the output I get if I call `ftdump 
> -n -u simhei.ttf`

This version of ftdump correctly returns the name "黑体" of the font. Which brings me back to my original question: what do I have to do to get this name too when using the API?