Re: [PATCH] Re: ftfont ISO10646-1 font bug found (was Re: 23.0.60; Heavy display problems with new font backend)

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Kenichi Handa writes:
> I think it's very ad-hoc to return only such fonts that has
> that specific character in that case.  Many non-English
> fonts doesn't support it.

Please take a look at my recent mail with the subject "Accumulated
fontset definition tweaks for testing".  I have come up with fixes for
all my display problems in the Emacs Lisp libraries.  The email lists
the various problems I found in "fontset.el".

> First of all, I have not that much considered about using
> PCF fonts via ftfont driver because it can be used by xfont
> driver if you put them in X's font-path.  On the contrary, I
> was even thinking about rejecting all PCF fonts in xft
> backend.

Does the xfont driver continue to work if a person specifies "xft" as
the font backend?  If it does, then I think that will be okay.  If it
doesn't then the ftfont driver should continue to support PCF fonts
alongside TrueType fonts, for consistency with other applications.

Derek

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