Re: BMP chars lacking fonts

From: Jungshik Shin <jshin i18nl10n com>
To: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh sharif edu>
Cc: silgraphite-devel lists sourceforge net, gtk-i18n-list gnome org
Subject: Re: BMP chars lacking fonts
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:40:13 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 03:12, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > And what's magical about the BMP? I have every confidence that
> > Pango-1.4 will be able to properly handle non-BMP characters fine -

> If only there was a standard for non-BMP bitmap fonts...

  Why do we need that if you meant X11 core fonts for non-BMP?
I think it's planned that X11 backend would be dropped sometime
in the future. With Xft and FT2 backends, we don't have to worry
about 'dreadful mess' of XLFD's any more.

  Jungshik

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