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

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

--- Comment #16 from Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> 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.

I don't think it is memory fonts we are talking about. as you already confessed
the above, it just contains a name of font family, not embedding a font itself.
it would just looks similar to most documents in the rich-format do like in
LibreOffice. it isn't memory fonts.

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