Comment 36 for bug 94282

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magisu (magi-mail) wrote : Re: [Bug 94282] Re: QT program doesn't select Chinese font correctly

On Thursday 27 December 2007 22:12:59 Michael Ummels wrote:
> I have written a Python script that sets up font substitution in QT3 to
> work as with fontconfig. The idea is to check for each font that exists
> on the system which fonts can be substituted for it using the fc-match
> command. A corresponding substitution entry is then written to the
> user's qtrc file. If you provide the --system option, the substitutions
> are written to the global qtrc file. Be warned however: The script will
> replace any existing font substitution in the qtrc file (e.g. ones
> written by qtconfig). To keep the old substitutions copy all entries in
> the [Font Substitution] section of the old qtrc file into the new one. A
> backup of the old qtrc file is saved under the name qtrc.old in the same
> directory where the qtrc file is located (i.e. $HOME/.qt or /etc/qt3 if
> you use the --system option).

Well, I have given up the idea of substitution. I am using Qt3-QtConfig, font
substitution engine. After all, thanks a lot for your code!!!