{"id":457,"date":"2021-05-01T05:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/?p=457"},"modified":"2021-05-01T05:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T13:51:13","slug":"font-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/01\/font-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Font Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, I have neglected this blog. So what’s been going on?<\/p>\n

I have taken some steps to migrate one of my major geofictions – The Ardisphere – from OGF to my self-hosted OGFish clone, Arhet. The reason for this is that OGF seems increasingly rudderless and destined to eventually crash and burn, and I am emulating the proverbial rat on the sinking ship. I still hugely value the community there. But the backups have become unreliable, the topo layer (of which I was one of the main and most expert users) has been indefinitely disabled, and conceptual space for innovation remains unavailable.<\/p>\n

One small problem that I’ve run up against in migrating The Ardisphere to Arhet is that I discovered that Korean characters were not being supported correctly by the main Arhet map render, called arhet-carto<\/em>. This is a problem because the Ardisphere is a multilingual polity, and Korean (dubbed Gohangukian) is one of the major languages in use, second only to the country’s lingua-franca, Spanish (dubbed Castellanese). I spent nearly two days trying to repair this Korean font problem. I think I have been successful. I had to manually re-install the Google noto set of fonts – noto is notorious (get it?) for being the most exhaustive font collection freely available. I don’t get why the original install failed to get everything – I suspect it’s an Ubuntu (linux) package maintenance problem, rather than anything directly related to the render engine (called renderd, and discussed in other, long-ago entries on this sparsely-edited blog).<\/p>\n

Here (below) are before-and-after screenshot details of a specific city name that showed the problem: Villa Constituci\u00f3n (\ud5cc\ubc95\uc2dc) is the capital and largest city in The Ardisphere. Ignore the weird border-artifacts behind the name on these map fragments – the city is in limbo, right now, as I was re-creating it and it got stuck in an unfinished state.<\/p>\n

Before – you can see the Korean (hangul) is “scattered”:<\/p>\n

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After – now the hangul is properly-composited:<\/p>\n

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You can see The Ardisphere on Arhet here<\/a> – and note that within the Arhet webpage you can switch layers to OGF and see it there<\/a> too. Same country, different planets!<\/p>\n

Music to fiddle fonts by: Attack Attack! “Brachyura Bombshell”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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