Hi, Sven,

Thanks for the experiment!  I will double check.  Currently my device does
not have input for me to scroll down.  I let it display many specific pages
of a font file, but none showed any Chinese symbols.

Regards,
Weidong
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Sven Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:23 -0400, Weidong Li wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the info!  Yes, I am absolutely sure that the font files I
> > tried contain Chinese characters and they work fine with X11
> > applications to display Chinese fonts.  Even xfd could display Chinese
> > characters from those files.
> >
> > I also suspect that the example program df_font.c that comes in the
> > directfb package might have problems in handling unicode characters
> > that require multiple bytes. I've tried several UTF-8 font files with
> > df_font, and none worked for characters requiring multiple bytes.  I'm
> > not sure if the problem is in df_font, or is in directfb itself.
>
> I have just tried this myself and it works just fine. My guess is that
> this is a misunderstanding about what df_fonts displays. You are looking
> at the characters laid out in a table at their Unicode code points. Thus
> you need to scroll down lots of pages to reach the Chinese characters.
> If you want to look at the characters sorted by glyph index in the font,
> then press the U key.
>
>
> Sven
>
>
>
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