Hi Juliusz,

Red Hat will use a updated ttmkfdir in the next release, we updated the 
ttmkfdir to FreeType2 and also added some other CJK releated 
features(like TTCap), and it uses system encodings.dir as default to 
recognize font encodings.

If anyone has interests, please have a look of 
http://people.redhat.com/yshao, I can also provide any help you need.

Another thing is we really see some real needs of TrueType embedded 
bitmap feature support in mainland China at the moment, don't know if 
you have any plan to add this to the X freetype backend?  

Regards,

Yu Shao


Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

>New versions of both mkfontscale and the FreeType 2 backend are
>available from
>
>  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/
>
>Note that you will need to apply the ``xfree86-freetype2.patch'' even
>if you've done before, as this version contains a little more stuff.
>
>I gratefully acknowledge the help of Ishikawa Mutsumi and James Cloos
>for this version.
>
>Changes in mkfontscale:
>
>  - support for non-AGL Type 1 fonts (e.g. symbol fonts);
>  - support for more Type 1 weights;
>  - smarter handling of non-Unicode fonts.
>
>Changes in the FreeType 2 backend:
>
>  - fixes a crash when adding properties (due to Ishikawa Mutsumi);
>  - support for OpenType/CFF fonts;
>  - support for non-AGL Type 1 fonts;
>  - support for custom Type 1 encodings (``adobe-fontspecific'');
>  - minor fixes to Type 1 metrics (the problem with average width remains);
>  - a number of minor cleanups.
>
>I would need people to help me make mkfontscale smarter when working
>with East-Asian encodings; I think some additions to the definition of
>CODE_IGNORED are needed to do a decent job with Chinese encodings
>(Japanese and Korean encodings seem to work with the current
>heuristics).  If you think you're competent to give me a hand with
>that, please do get in touch.
>
>                                        Juliusz
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