Mike A. Harris wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>
>
[...]

>I don't like the idea of the X server guessing where fonts are
>either.  The solution IMHO to font related problems like this, is
>to analyze why the font configuration is broken, and come up with
>ways to make sure those problems can't happen if possible.
>
...but X server could really have one last resort font compiled in, in
case everything else fails, instead of just failing?

OS/2 Presentation Manager had this kind of solution, there was vectored
(in WIN3.* vector format) Courier font compiled in (of course there were
other font issues in OS/2).

Doesn't it (built-in fixed-width vector font) make sense??..





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