[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #8674: Use older version of FreeMono.ttf

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 07/20/2010 12:49 AM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Jim, in http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3518 (
>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/13588 ), we updated the version of the
>> FreeFont fonts distributed with MythTV (to the 20060126 version, unless I'm
>> mistaken) because the older version we were using was missing many glyphs
>> (such as the eighth note, which is often used in captions to indicate music
>> is playing or to indicate song lyrics).
> Mike, thanks for the comprehensive explanation.  I think there must be
> some system fonts getting in the way on my system, as you suggested.
> I will do some more investigation.

Great.  Please let me know what you find.  I'd be happy to update to a 
newer version of FreeFont fonts, but as long as we're doing so, it would 
be nice to use current.  If they don't work, though, we may be able to 
update to the 2008 version you mentioned.

I still haven't gone in to trace the QFontDatabase code (and/or the 
freetype2 code) to see if it actually loads fonts that are already 
available on system, but I have a suspicion that it doesn't.

Oh, and note, also, that now your system font-replacement rules come 
into play, too.  So, if you have any rules in 
/etc/fonts/fonts{,-local}.conf or /etc/fonts/conf.d/* that apply to the 
FreeFont fonts, they may result in your getting a completely different font.

Thanks, again, for investigating the caption font setting issue.  It's 
always the small things that get overlooked, so having a fresh pair of 
eyes look at the issue helps.  I should have known when it was first 
mentioned, but it never hit me.

Thanks for investigating.

Mike