Around 12 o'clock on Dec 28, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> For those who think that all this is obsolete, remember that it is the > only solution proposed so far that makes efficient complex script > rendering available to legacy X terminals with immutable ROM servers and > no RENDER or ST extension. The inefficient mechanism aluded to here is currently in the works -- I'm busy retargeting Xft to provide client-side font support using the core protocol. I belive this will provide a better platform for application development than awkward attempts to retrofit reasonable Unicode support into the core protocol. I should have monochrome text running in a week or so to give people a chance to experiment with performance over links of various sorts. When I've done this in other environments, I've found performance to be acceptable down to 2B ISDN speeds; others may have different opinions. ST should be easily modified in the same fashion. I agree that it is important to provide sophisticated text management in a manner which is independent of the underlying X server capabilities. I also think that such a mechanism should look forward to how we believe text should be managed rather than attempting to work around deficiencies in the original core X text design. I think there is concensus that client-side text (in whatever guise -- Xft or ST) is the best way forward. Let's focus on making that solution available on all desktops as soon as possible. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
