[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 64766] Make fontconfig scanning faster

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64766

--- Comment #15 from Martin Herkt <lachs0r at srsfckn.biz> ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> Well, I have never seen any examples that embedded extra fonts and allowing
> to select a font from those. for what? am I getting confused?
> 
> AFAIK they embed a font to provide same representation on different
> platforms. I don't see any needs if one wants to use the system fonts
> instead of the embedded fonts nor embedding extra fonts which may not be
> used in some cases.

Okay, let me try to explain this to you with a practical example.
There is a widely used subtitle format which only stores the names of the
desired font family in its styles. Fonts are typically stored along with the
subtitles, video and audio tracks in a container format, but not always. At
playback time, you don't know which (if any!) of these files belong to the
required font families, and you can't be sure they cover all the required
glyphs, and you need to find the right one in a way similar to Windows because
that's what most of those scripts expect. That is why one would query memory
fonts with fontconfig.

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