Around 9 o'clock on Sep 29, Brian Stell wrote:
> Xft is clearly the 1st choice (and perhaps only choice) most > single language apps should look at to make this transition. As Xft can also use core fonts, and will provide a Unicode API for those, Xft should be useful even when running on legacy X servers. Of course, the fun TrueType features will all be missing, but at least apps won't have to deal with ISO2022... > Once there is an efficient way to find out which glyphs are > available, multilingual apps will need code to combine these > fonts in to a "multilingual" font (Pango) and do complex text > layout (Pango?, FTLayout?, ICU?). I'm considering whether font merging would be useful in Xft. Once I've finished adding the Unicode coverage information for each font, adding the ability to do font merging would be relatively easy. It might extend the coverage for simple applications, or it just might encourage people to ignore the harder layout issues which Xft will not address. What do other people think? Should Xft do simplistic merging? Obviously, there would be a way to disable this as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc. _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
