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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KFontCombo speed
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-25 23:57:18
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#if Martijn Klingens
> On Wednesday 25 July 2001 10:44, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > there is also another problem with this kind of font combobox. I have some
> > thai fonts here, that do _not_ have latin1 characters. The font combobox
> > just displays nothing there.
> 
> Hmm... IIRC the Windows equivalent of this widget shows the font name in the 
> default font if the font contains glyphs or otherwise nonprintable characters 
> and _ after _ that adds a small sample of how the font really looks like by 
> picking some characters that do exist in the font. Might be an idea here as 
> well...

Looking at the KFontCombo code, it appears there is an algorithm which
checks if _every_ character in the name can be rendered in the font.

Perhaps this simply doesn't work for some cases, such as that cited by
Lars. That's a shame, because it looks like a nice idea :|

Rik

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