[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] libass: use Noto fonts on Android 5+

[Salah-Eddin Shaban]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, at 19:31, Zhao Zhili wrote:
>> Should we add an option for font configuration? Too many Android devices
>> have
>> all kinds of font files except a mandatory one (does that exist?), and
>> the
>> mandatory one doesn't work so there are something like
>> DroidSansChinese.ttf.
>
> The correct way is to parse the fontfallback.xml and add it to libass.
>

You think we should try to fix that in libass?

As a sidenote though, fonts.xml now says we should not parse it directly:
https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base/commit/ff55115121a7a2753ba2265cb3201a3a14c0874d#diff-59cec50835cfa2d987438f8b86daf314