Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question

[Brian Stell]

Brian Stell wrote:
> 
> Brian Stell wrote:
> >
> > Keith Packard wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Now that's a good idea -- allow the application to hand additional
> > > fonts to Xft to "fill-in" the holes.
> 
> This is where/why the list of available glyphs in a font is
> needed.

Since this is done "in the middle" of displaying a page we
cannot tolerate more that say 5-10 seconds for this. If a
glyph is not available the code will scan all available fonts.

Currently getting this list of available glyphs from all
available fonts (eg: the ~200 FreeType fonts on my system)
takes 90-120 seconds on my 1GHz Pentium system. Hence the 
need for a font catalog with this information to be 
generated ahead of time.

Imagine a users frustration if after the 2 minute delay
we still display a fallback '?'.

-- 
Brian Stell
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