can you help me with system_profiler SPFontsDataType on 10.15.7 Catalina please ?

[denis-bz]

Dear Mr. Ke Qingrong,
not an issue, but can you please help me ? Can you try

system_profiler -json SPFontsDataType

on a mac with 10.15 ? On my 10.15.7 I get 200+ errors on _names starting "." --

2024-05-17 11:56:24.964 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AlBayanPUA", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.964 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSystemFontNameRequest to debug.
2024-05-17 11:56:24.968 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AlBayanPUA-Bold", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.972 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AlNilePUA", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.975 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AlNilePUA-Bold", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.978 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AlTarikhPUA", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.982 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AppleColorEmojiUI", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.985 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AppleSDGothicNeoI-Regular", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.988 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AppleSDGothicNeoI-Medium", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
2024-05-17 11:56:24.991 system_profiler[1061:15889] CoreText note: Client requested name ".AppleSDGothicNeoI-Light", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].
...

My json from system_profiler SPFontsDataType starts off --

{
  "SPFontsDataType" : [
    {
      "_name" : "SFNSDisplayCondensed-Thin.otf",
      "enabled" : "yes",
      "path" : "/System/Library/Fonts/SFNSDisplayCondensed-Thin.otf",
      "type" : "opentype",
      "typefaces" : [
        {
          "_name" : ".SFNSDisplayCondensed-Thin",
...

which is not like your 10.15.json. How do you create that, from what system files ?
Thanks
-- denis

[keqingrong]

I'm sorry, I don't currently have the macOS 10.15 system, so I'm unable to help you. BTW, the font data is sourced from the Apple website Fonts included with macOS Catalina.

[denis-bz]

Thanks anyway.
The error messages Client requested name ".AlBayanPUA" ... are all for names starting with a ".";
have you ever seen such in your .jsons, for any macos version ?
(They seem to be in the system_profile database but not in the .otf etc. -- just guessing.)

Anyway your link to support.apple com says "... can't be disabled in Font Book" so I guess I'm out of luck.