Re: BMP chars lacking fonts

[Jungshik Shin <jshin i18nl10n com>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 02:10, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> >   Why do we need that if you meant X11 core fonts for non-BMP?
>
> Because I sometimes need to display something NOW, and I don't have the
> time to draw outline glyphs. But drawing bitmap glyphs is very easy.

  If you just want to show something NOW and don't care how good they look,
you can just wrap up  your bitmap glyphs in a TTF and let FT2/Xft (if
Pango's non-BMP support is not yet ready for the prime time) do the job.

  Jungshik