RE: [ft-devel] Force PMingLiU like font do HINTING

[Sergey Tolstov]

> > Do those tricky fonts' gasp tables suggest not to use hinting even
> > though they look bad without it?
> 
> Good question.  One old font which I have, mingli.ttf, doesn't have a
> gasp table at all.
> 
> > Or they look bad when a programmer asks to turn the hinting off
> > ignoring the gasp table suggestion?
> 
> Such fonts must have hinting activated all the time.

I feel it is not right to allow such a low-level API as freetype to
override programmer request for the hinting type unless we have
FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING
FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING_AND_I_REALLY_MEAN_THAT

The publicly available list of "tricky" fonts with recommended hinting
setting (may be even per glyph index for some) would be nice to have. So
that a higher level API could benefit.

Thanks,
Sergey