Font::TTF::Name(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Font::TTF::Name(3)NAMEFont::TTF::Name - String table for a TTF font
DESCRIPTION
Strings are held by number, platform, encoding and language. Strings
are accessed as:
$f->{'name'}{'strings'}[$number][$platform_id][$encoding_id]{$language_id}
Notice that the language is held in an associative array due to its
sparse nature on some platforms such as Microsoft ($pid = 3). Notice
also that the array order is different from the stored array order
(platform, encoding, language, number) to allow for easy manipulation
of strings by number (which is what I guess most people will want to
do).
By default, $Font::TTF::Name::utf8 is set to 1, and strings will be
stored as UTF8 wherever possible. The method "is_utf8" can be used to
find out if a string in a particular platform and encoding will be
returned as UTF8. Unicode strings are always converted if utf8 is
requested. Otherwise, strings are stored according to platform:
You now have to set <$Font::TTF::Name::utf8> to 0 to get the old behav‐
iour.
Apple Unicode (platform id = 0)
Data is stored as network ordered UCS2. There is no encoding id for
this platform but there are language ids as per Mac language ids.
Mac (platform id = 1)
Data is stored as 8-bit binary data, leaving the interpretation to
the user according to encoding id.
Unicode (platform id = 2)
Currently stored as 16-bit network ordered UCS2. Upon release of
Perl 5.005 this will change to utf8 assuming current UCS2 semantics
for all encoding ids.
Windows (platform id = 3)
As per Unicode, the data is currently stored as 16-bit network
ordered UCS2. Upon release of Perl 5.005 this will change to utf8
assuming current UCS2 semantics for all encoding ids.
INSTANCE VARIABLES
strings
An array of arrays, etc.
METHODS
$t->read
Reads all the names into memory
$t->out($fh)
Writes out all the strings
$t->XML_element($context, $depth, $key, $value)
Outputs the string element in nice XML (which is all the table really!)
$t->XML_end($context, $tag, %attrs)
Store strings in the right place
is_utf8($pid, $eid)
Returns whether a string of a given platform and encoding is going to
be in UTF8
find_name($nid)
Hunts down a name in all the standard places and returns the string and
for an array context the pid, eid & lid as well
set_name($nid, $str[, $lang[, @cover]])
Sets the given name id string to $str for all platforms and encodings
that this module can handle. If $lang is set, it is interpretted as a
language tag and if the particular language of a string is found to
match, then that string is changed, otherwise no change occurs.
If supplied, @cover should be a list of references to two-element
arrays containing pid,eid pairs that should added to the name table if
not already present.
This function does not add any names to the table unless @cover is sup‐
plied.
Font::TTF::Name->match_lang($pid, $lid, $lang)
Compares the language associated to the string of given platform and
language with the given language tag. If the language matches the tag
(i.e. is equal or more defined than the given language tag) returns
true. This is calculated by finding whether the associated language tag
starts with the given language tag.
Font::TTF::Name->get_lang($pid, $lid)
Returns the language tag associated with a particular platform and lan‐
guage id
Font::TTF::Name->find_lang($pid, $lang)
Looks up the language name and returns a lang id if one exists
BUGS
· Unicode type strings will be stored in utf8 for all known plat‐
forms, once Perl 5.6 has been released and I can find all the map‐
ping tables, etc.
AUTHOR
Martin Hosken Martin_Hosken@sil.org. See Font::TTF::Font for copyright
and licensing.
perl v5.8.8 2005-10-06 Font::TTF::Name(3)
