On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 08:55 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > In freetype/src/bdf/bdflib.c I see: [...] > > > > Which seems to prevent a BDF containing chars with ENCODING values > > > 65536 from being opened. > > This is correct.
The X protocol cannot handle fonts with encoding >= 65536, so I would not be surprised if other BDF tools had similar restrictions. > Do you really think that this is of any use today? There are much > better font formats than BDF, even for bitmaps! Bitmaps encapsulated in a TTF file (as SBIT) are more efficient than BDF or PCF files, along with being more portable and more capable. Someday X will use this format and deprecate PCF/BDF... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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