XCreateFontSet(3X11) XLIB FUNCTIONS XCreateFontSet(3X11)NAME
XCreateFontSet, XFreeFontSet - create and free an interna-
tional text drawing font set
SYNTAX
XFontSet XCreateFontSet(display, base_font_name_list,
missing_charset_list_return,
missing_charset_count_return,
def_string_return)
Display *display;
char *base_font_name_list;
char ***missing_charset_list_return;
int *missing_charset_count_return;
char **def_string_return;
void XFreeFontSet(display, font_set)
Display *display;
XFontSet font_set;
ARGUMENTS
display Specifies the connection to the X server.
base_font_name_list
Specifies the base font names.
def_string_return
Returns the string drawn for missing charsets.
font_set Specifies the font set.
missing_charset_count_return
Returns the number of missing charsets.
missing_charset_list_return
Returns the missing charsets.
DESCRIPTION
The XCreateFontSet function creates a font set for the
specified display. The font set is bound to the current
locale when XCreateFontSet is called. The font set may be
used in subsequent calls to obtain font and character
information and to image text in the locale of the font
set.
The base_font_name_list argument is a list of base font
names that Xlib uses to load the fonts needed for the
locale. The base font names are a comma-separated list.
The string is null-terminated and is assumed to be in the
Host Portable Character Encoding; otherwise, the result is
implementation-dependent. White space immediately on
either side of a separating comma is ignored.
Use of XLFD font names permits Xlib to obtain the fonts
needed for a variety of locales from a single locale-
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independent base font name. The single base font name
should name a family of fonts whose members are encoded in
the various charsets needed by the locales of interest.
An XLFD base font name can explicitly name a charset
needed for the locale. This allows the user to specify an
exact font for use with a charset required by a locale,
fully controlling the font selection.
If a base font name is not an XLFD name, Xlib will attempt
to obtain an XLFD name from the font properties for the
font. If this action is successful in obtaining an XLFD
name, the XBaseFontNameListOfFontSet function will return
this XLFD name instead of the client-supplied name.
Xlib uses the following algorithm to select the fonts that
will be used to display text with the XFontSet.
For each font charset required by the locale, the base
font name list is searched for the first appearance of one
of the following cases that names a set of fonts that
exist at the server:
o The first XLFD-conforming base font name that speci-
fies the required charset or a superset of the
required charset in its CharSetRegistry and CharSe-
tEncoding fields. The implementation may use a base
font name whose specified charset is a superset of
the required charset, for example, an ISO8859-1 font
for an ASCII charset.
o The first set of one or more XLFD-conforming base
font names that specify one or more charsets that can
be remapped to support the required charset. The
Xlib implementation may recognize various mappings
from a required charset to one or more other charsets
and use the fonts for those charsets. For example,
JIS Roman is ASCII with tilde and backslash replaced
by yen and overbar; Xlib may load an ISO8859-1 font
to support this character set if a JIS Roman font is
not available.
o The first XLFD-conforming font name or the first non-
XLFD font name for which an XLFD font name can be
obtained, combined with the required charset (replac-
ing the CharSetRegistry and CharSetEncoding fields in
the XLFD font name). As in case 1, the implementa-
tion may use a charset that is a superset of the
required charset.
o The first font name that can be mapped in some imple-
mentation-dependent manner to one or more fonts that
support imaging text in the charset.
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For example, assume that a locale required the charsets:
ISO8859-1
JISX0208.1983
JISX0201.1976
GB2312-1980.0
The user could supply a base_font_name_list that explic-
itly specifies the charsets, ensuring that specific fonts
are used if they exist. For example:
"-JIS-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--26-180-100-100-C-240-JISX0208.1983-0,\
-JIS-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--26-180-100-100-C-120-JISX0201.1976-0,\
-GB-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--26-180-100-100-C-240-GB2312-1980.0,\
-Adobe-Courier-Bold-R-Normal--25-180-75-75-M-150-ISO8859-1"
Alternatively, the user could supply a base_font_name_list
that omits the charsets, letting Xlib select font charsets
required for the locale. For example:
"-JIS-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--26-180-100-100-C-240,\
-JIS-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--26-180-100-100-C-120,\
-GB-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--26-180-100-100-C-240,\
-Adobe-Courier-Bold-R-Normal--25-180-100-100-M-150"
Alternatively, the user could simply supply a single base
font name that allows Xlib to select from all available
fonts that meet certain minimum XLFD property require-
ments. For example:
"-*-*-*-R-Normal--*-180-100-100-*-*"
If XCreateFontSet is unable to create the font set, either
because there is insufficient memory or because the cur-
rent locale is not supported, XCreateFontSet returns NULL,
missing_charset_list_return is set to NULL, and miss-
ing_charset_count_return is set to zero. If fonts exist
for all of the charsets required by the current locale,
XCreateFontSet returns a valid XFontSet, miss-
ing_charset_list_return is set to NULL, and miss-
ing_charset_count_return is set to zero.
If no font exists for one or more of the required
charsets, XCreateFontSet sets missing_charset_list_return
to a list of one or more null-terminated charset names for
which no font exists and sets missing_charset_count_return
to the number of missing fonts. The charsets are from the
list of the required charsets for the encoding of the
locale and do not include any charsets to which Xlib may
be able to remap a required charset.
If no font exists for any of the required charsets or if
the locale definition in Xlib requires that a font exist
for a particular charset and a font is not found for that
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charset, XCreateFontSet returns NULL. Otherwise, XCreate-
FontSet returns a valid XFontSet to font_set.
When an Xmb/wc drawing or measuring function is called
with an XFontSet that has missing charsets, some charac-
ters in the locale will not be drawable. If
def_string_return is non-NULL, XCreateFontSet returns a
pointer to a string that represents the glyphs that are
drawn with this XFontSet when the charsets of the avail-
able fonts do not include all font glyphs required to draw
a codepoint. The string does not necessarily consist of
valid characters in the current locale and is not neces-
sarily drawn with the fonts loaded for the font set, but
the client can draw and measure the default glyphs by
including this string in a string being drawn or measured
with the XFontSet.
If the string returned to def_string_return is the empty
string (""), no glyphs are drawn, and the escapement is
zero. The returned string is null-terminated. It is
owned by Xlib and should not be modified or freed by the
client. It will be freed by a call to XFreeFontSet with
the associated XFontSet. Until freed, its contents will
not be modified by Xlib.
The client is responsible for constructing an error mes-
sage from the missing charset and default string informa-
tion and may choose to continue operation in the case that
some fonts did not exist.
The returned XFontSet and missing charset list should be
freed with XFreeFontSet and XFreeStringList, respectively.
The client-supplied base_font_name_list may be freed by
the client after calling XCreateFontSet.
The XFreeFontSet function frees the specified font set.
The associated base font name list, font name list,
XFontStruct list, and XFontSetExtents, if any, are freed.
SEE ALSOXExtentsofFontSet(3X11), XFontsOfFontSet(3X11), XFontSe-
tExtents(3X11)
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