Re: [Devel] Re: patch: check bdf properties WEIGHT_NAME and SLANT case insensitively

[Keith Packard]

Around 18 o'clock on Sep 12, Federic Zhang wrote:

> Agreed with Werner, unnecessary to do this transcode within Freetype.
> Actually it can be done in fontconfig with the #if expression which
> can contain a bulky of transition code. then the libfontconfig can
> still keep compact in some case if the legacy encoding support isn't
> needed.

For BDF/PCF fonts, it would be far better to convert them to Unicode
encoding an pack them into a .ttf file.  FreeType will happily read
TrueType files that hold only bitmaps, and you get the advantage of
encoding tables that can hold Unicode data in a reasonable amount of space.

Juliusz Chroboczek has been working on such a utility; I don't know the 
current status of this work.

-keith