[Development] Question about QFontconfigDatabase

[Rafael Roquetto]

Hello,

While analyzing the source code in qfontconfigdatabase.cpp (qt4), I stumbled
upon the following piece of code (beginning on line 433):

    struct FcDefaultFont {
        const char *qtname;
        const char *rawname;
        bool fixed;
    };  
    const FcDefaultFont defaults[] = { 
        { "Serif", "serif", false },
        { "Sans Serif", "sans-serif", false },
        { "Monospace", "monospace", true },
        { 0, 0, false }
    };  
    const FcDefaultFont *f = defaults;
    // aliases only make sense for 'common', not for any of the specials
    QSupportedWritingSystems ws; 
    ws.setSupported(QFontDatabase::Latin);


    while (f->qtname) {
        registerFont(f->qtname,QLatin1String(""),QFont::Normal,QFont::StyleNormal,QFont::Unstretched,true,true,0,ws,0);
        registerFont(f->qtname,QLatin1String(""),QFont::Normal,QFont::StyleItalic,QFont::Unstretched,true,true,0,ws,0);
        registerFont(f->qtname,QLatin1String(""),QFont::Normal,QFont::StyleOblique,QFont::Unstretched,true,true,0,ws,0);
        ++f;
    }

When registerFont is called, f->qtname is passed as the family name (so
"Serif", for instance), but an empty string is passed as the foundry. My
question then follows: how does Qt know where to load these families from,
since no font path is being specifying?

Thanks,
Rafael
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