Re: Releasing Xft2 and Fontconfig

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:57:34PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> Xft2 and Fontconfig were not ready for XFree86 4.2, but several projects 
> would like use them before XFree86 4.3 ships this fall.  To help those 
> projects along, as well as get a bit more exposure for these new 
> libraries, I'm planning on making a separate release for these packages.
>

This is a great idea, thanks. I've tested your packages and I get
a few problems.

- The output of xft-config --libs gives:

        -L/opt/Xft/lib -lxft ...etc. 
                         ^^^

I think it should be -lXft and not -lxft

- First I've compiled your packages with freetype-2.0.6. So there
is no FT_Get_Next_Char function and this function is defined in
fontconfig/src/fccharset.c. It seems that this definition leads to
an infinite loop somewhere. With such build a simple programs as:

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>
int main()
{
  FcBool result = FcInit();
  return !result;
}

never stop and take 100% of the CPU (nice 20).

After I upgrade to freetype-2.0.9 this problem disappear.

- XftDrawStringUtf8 does not seem to work. I get only blank
strings (of non zero length). I do not have this pb with Xft 1.
If I convert the utf8 string to ucs2 and use XftDrawString16,
no problems too.

- Finally a question about encoding. It seems to me that
XftDrawString8 assumes that the string "encoding" is iso8859-1
XftDrawString16 assumes that the string "encoding" is usc2
XftDrawString32 assumes that the string "encoding" is usc4
Is this the case?
Can we display other encoding than iso8859-1 (as iso8859-15)
with XftDrawString8?


Regards, Olivier