[Fontconfig] fontconfig 2.2.3 only works with iso8859-1
Dmitry Karasik
dmitry at karasik.eu.org
Tue Mar 1 07:39:57 EST 2005
Keith> As BDF fonts have so many other troubles, it's not exactly
Keith> encouraging anyone to go try to fix this; I'm pushing to eliminate
Keith> BDF/PCF fonts and replace them with bitmap glyphs encoded in true
Keith> type files (SFNT), which seems better in all ways to me.
Please don't, at least for iso-8859-1 and iso-10646-1 encodings. I see
where the new font layout would shine brighter, but probably it's better to not
fix what ain't broken?
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Sincerely,
Dmitry Karasik
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