fontconfig.properties cannot handle TTC

[Arne Goetje]

It appears that different font faces of a Truetype Collection (TTC) cannot be used in fontconfig.properties. Although X.org has separate XLFD entries for the different faces, Java still always selects the first fontface of the TTC.

How to test:
1. install ttf-arphic-uming (> 0.2.0)
2. add the following lines to fontconfig.properties:
allfonts.chinese-cn-arphic=-arphic-ar pl uming cn-light-r-normal--*-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1
allfonts.chinese-hk-arphic=-arphic-ar pl uming hk-light-r-normal--*-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1
allfonts.chinese-tw-arphic=-arphic-ar pl uming tw-light-r-normal--*-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1

All of these have a fontpath of /usr/share/fons/truetype/arphic/uming.ttc

Make these fonts to be preferred:
ex.:
sequence.allfonts.UTF-8=latin1,chinese-hk-arphic

Try each of the three defined faces separately.

The following fontfaces are available in this ttc:
0: AR PL UMing CN
1: AR PL UMing HK
2: AR PL UMing TW
3: AR PL UMing TW MBE

xlsfonts | grep 'ar pl uming' lists the same XLFDs as above.

In a Java application display the following Unicode codepoints: U+4EE4 令 U+9AA8 骨
The should display different for each font face like shown in the attachment.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

is this still an issue with karmic?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

closing the report, no feedback