While investigating the possibility of supporting wide custom font encodings in GFX:FT2 (a la bug 176290, bug 177877) I realized that nsFreeType.cpp has the hard-coded list of fonts and their font-encodings. This should be factored out into fontEncoding.properties file as is done for Win,Mac and Xft. Applications of this include bug 204039, bug 203052, bug 204286, bug 176315.

It more or less works, but needs some factoring (and a couple of problems to fix). I just want to put an interim version somewhere safer than my machine. In this patch, I went beyond making FT2 code refer to fontEncoding.properties file (instead of hard-coded arrays). I enabled FT2 code to deal with 'wide custom' fonts as well as 'narrow' custom fonts. The latter is supported by the existing code and is for MathML while the former is for CTL support.

One line patch for bug 212400 fixed a seemingly hard-to-understand problem (with 'the' Korean custom font working while other custom fonts not working).

I shouldn't have aimed too high :-). It took a lot more tweaking than I expected. With this patch, I fixed bug 179946 and bug 195038 (see also bug 94319) as well as this bug. I kinda littered files with debug statements and I'll clean them up later. In the meantime, I'm uploading this for the peace of mind :-)

basically the same as attachment 129347 [details] [diff] [review] with a bit more extensive comments

Brian and Masaki, Can either of your review the latest patch and move this forward? If both of you can't at the moment, who would be qualified to review it(someone at Sun)? Thanks.

Pete, can you review the latest patch?

*** Bug 226121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

bryner, would you care to take a look? It's long ! I have to update the patch against the trunk (not much change, though) and perhaps have to comment more.

Comment on attachment 131648 [details] [diff] [review] a new patch Removing the sr request to simplify my queue. Care to re-ask once you get the r.

Comment on attachment 131648 [details] [diff] [review] a new patch I'm making a new patch against the trunk.

I updated attachment 131648 [details] [diff] [review] to the trunk (+ my patch for nsAutoBuffer that will go in as soon as the HEAD is opened up for 1.7beta development) I haven't yet managed to test it because a new version of freetype library doesn't have FT_Image_Cache* APIs (bug 234035).

jshin, is still needed after 4 years?

I am inclined to think this has been rendered moot by subsequent changes, in that I cannot find the offending hardwired table in the code nor can I find any fontEncoding.properties files.