Re: [Devel] FT_Get_Char_Index choosing the wrong glyph with Shift-JIS charmap?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Please ignore my earlier question about Shift-JIS.  After a little
> more debugging I believe that I am correctly calling
> FT_Get_Char_Index.  I have simplified my test case to simply wanting
> to render the Japanese character ー (HEX: 815B).  I have verified
> that I am calling FT_Select_Charmap with ft_encoding_sjis and it is
> succeeding.  I have verified using Windows Character Map application
> that the font I am using contains the proper character at 0x815B
> (U+30FC) with the Character Set set to "Windows: Japanese"
> (Shift-JIS).  However, FreeType 2.1.2 is rendering "P" 0x50 (U+0050)
> instead of ー.  I also tested this with 2.0.9 and got the same
> result.

Please try the current snapshot from both FreeType 2 and ft2demos.
I've just verified that

  ftview -e sjis <size> <font>

gives the right result in case the SJIS cmap is correct.  Perhaps it
helps if you compare your code with the one in ftview.c.


    Werner