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Bug 327854 - pango fc modules should be able to list themselves as needing fonts with certain capabilities
pango fc modules should be able to list themselves as needing fonts with cert...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: Persian
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-20 12:49 UTC by Behdad Esfahbod
Modified: 2009-01-06 11:46 UTC
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Description Behdad Esfahbod 2006-01-20 12:49:12 UTC 
Currently the arabic-fc module only handles Arabic fonts with OpenType Arabic features.  Means, it doesn't do shaping-to-presentation-forms.  For this to work, the font should have the "otlayout:arab" fontconfig capability.  So, Pango fc modules should be able to set a requirement on the capabilities of the fonts they handle.
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-01-20 12:51:22 UTC 
This bug is already showing when bitmap fonts are chosen for rendering Arabic, which well, doesn't quite work.
Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2009-01-06 11:46:02 UTC 
FreeType doesn't match FC_CAPABILITY, and unless we have good reason to request that, it's not going to change.  The proper fix would be to shape to presentation forms instead, or just show broken rendering with broken fonts.  Nothing wrong with that.