Under pressure from actual users, I'm trying to get the combination of
fontconfig and both versions of Xft ready for a release.
I've backed out some tentative changes aimed at providing localized font
names for applications; that will have to wait for a future release. I'm
confident we can add this without breaking any existing interfaces,
although it will require applications make a special call to locate the
local names; I suspect far too many assume ASCII font names and aren't
ready for UTF-8 yet.
However, I did manage to completely rewrite the ~/.fonts.cache logic to
eliminate per-file syscalls when the cache file is up-to-date. Really,
it's much better now, and the API didn't change at all.
Release candidate 1 has been tagged in the XFree86 CVS repository and
packaged for your pleasure, please find it at:
http://keithp.com/fonts/pub/fcpackage.rc1.tar.gz
I intend to stabilize and ship this version in short order; I'm interested
in hearing about problems and concerns, but functional enhancements will
await a new version.
Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab
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