Most of the remaining elements in fonts.conf have been moved to separate
files. The numbering scheme for conf.d files has been documented in the
README and the files have been renumbered. Config files have been
validated against the DTD and a few minor errors fixed.
The FreeSans, FreeSerif and FreeMono fonts cover a large number of
languages, but are of generally poor quality. Moving these after fonts which
cover specific languages but which have higher quality glyphs should improve
font selection.
DejaVu is a modified version of Bitstream Vera that covers significantly
more languages, but does so with spotty quality, lacking hinting for many
glyphs, especially for the synthesized serif oblique face. Use Bitstream
Vera (where installed).
Previous policy was to attempt to update the cache in place and bail if that
didn't work. Now, search for the first writable directory and place the
cache file there instead. Furthermore, on startup, search directory list for
valid cache files instead of bailing if the first found cache file wasn't
valid.
override this in ~/.fonts.conf
Updated translations
Destroy font configuration on exit to help valgrind
Use own transcoding routines in preference to iconv which appears to have
leaks in some translators. Call iconv_close after using iconv (oops).
Prefer unicode encoding of Euro char as some fonts mis-encode Euro in other
ones.
Must fetch bitmap glyphs to get width values to check for
monospace/dual-width fonts.
Add new helper program 'fc-case' to construct case folding tables from
standard Unicode CaseFolding.txt file
Re-implement case insensitive functions with Unicode aware versions
(including full case folding mappings)
multi-arch installs. Now that all X fonts are included without
prejudice, the chances of the date being at all interesting are rather
limited. Bug #415.
Add copyright and license
wherever the X fonts are located).
Document new <include>directory-name</include> semantics
add <include ignore_missing="yes">conf.d</include>
Add selectfont to ignore bitmap fonts, add comment for selectfont which
accepts bitmap fonts.
Allow <include> configuration elements to reference directories. Parse and
load all files of the form [0-9]* in sorted order.
Keith Packard
James Cloos
Patrick Lam
Keith Packard