Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I tried to use xfstt with Asian fonts, but had no success. As a
> > default, xfstt only handles the first 255 characters of any font and
> > discards the rest. It works fine like that for English, but of course
> > not for languages which use much more characters.
>
> Though I am entirely a user (not a developer and I don't know at
> all on the internal), I am using 'xfs-xtt' package of Debian GNU/Linux.
> It works well with Japanese (jisx0208) truetype font.
> (Debian has 'xfstt' package also. It doesn't work for CJK.)
The Debian package xfs-xtt contains the font server from:
http://X-TT.dsl.gr.jp/index.html
This fontserver is unrelated to xfstt. X-TT was developed escpecially
with CJK fonts in mind and is supposed to work very well with these.
X-TT is distributed as patches against the fontserver 'xfs' contained
in XFree86-3.3.x or against the X-server itself. If you use the
X-server with the X-TT patches, you will even get antialiasing (but I
didn't try that yet).
Unfortunately there seem to be no patches available for XFree86-4.0
and the X-TT project seems to be very quiet lately. There was no
traffic at all on the X-TT mailing lists during the last month.
> I also heard that XF86-4.0 has two independent truetype engines,
Do you remember where you heard that? Do you know where I can find
some documentation about the truetype engine of XFree86-4.0?
> though I don't know whether they can handle CJK and Unicode fonts.
I tried XFree86-4.0 without a fontserver and couldn't display CJK
fonts either. Similar to xfstt, the first 255 characters displayed
fine but that was all (I did start X with '-deferglyphs 16').
--
Mike Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
