Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> MK> An X11 client does not see a Type1 font directly. It just sees an X11
> MK> font, and that can be up to 2^16 glyphs large. XFree86 can recode a
> MK> Type1 font in any encoding into an X11 font in many encodings, including
> MK> CP1252 and ISO10646-1.
> 
> Yes, except that the current code limits X11 fonts deried from Type 1
> and Speedo fonts to 256 codepoints.  (The data structures would need
> to be changed in order to efficiently deal with larger codepoint spaces.)

I didn't have sufficient context to understand, but that's what I
meant to mean.  I haven't studied XFree86's font guts closely...  I'm
more on the user end of things.

Can the FreeType T1 backend handle more than 256 codepoints in a Type
1 font?

'james

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