Kaixo! On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 08:59:02PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > Georgian, I don't know about available fonts, but IMO, _creating_ a > Georgian font from scratch would be less work than trying to maintain > the old core X code. Georgian users are trying to convince one of the major georgian founder to liberate some fonts. > If there are problems that are occurring with common > freely-distributable Hebrew fonts and Yiddish, we need to either > to fix the fonts or fix the engine. There are some Type1 fonts that are wrongly encoded (they claim to be iso8859-1 glyphs); that is due to the fact that old XFree86 versions only recognized iso8859-1 encoding for Type1 fontes; but Xft obviously needs properly encoded font, and new XFree86 corrected the Type1 problem, making those fonts broken even when used in old X11 font context. However, the font author didn't recognize or understand the problem; telling something like "it worked previously, so why should I change them?". Developpement of fonts for complex scripts will probably increase now that those scripts can be used; previously developping a good free font to use it in a free operating system was quite a moot point; as those scripts wasn't properly supported anyway. Now that the technical ability to use the mis there, it creates enough incentive. I want to thank all the people that made pango and Xft a reality, and something that, while still having areas to improve, is already at the top and superior to what is provided in some other operating systems. -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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