From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The WHY of Xft Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:32:23 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <200503210032.JAA27047@etlken.m17n.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111365503 31751 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 00:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 01:38:23 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAvv-0000Zo-Jl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:38:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDBCv-0002O7-1g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:55:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDBBu-0001yc-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDBBn-0001vH-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:54:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDBBi-0001qU-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DDAqM-0000I3-3g; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from nfs.m17n.org (nfs.m17n.org [192.47.44.7]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j2L0WOdY029866; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:32:24 +0900 Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by nfs.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j2L0WNDI029326; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:32:23 +0900 Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id JAA27047; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:32:23 +0900 (JST) Original-To: James Cloos In-reply-to: (message from James Cloos on Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:49:50 -0500) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.3.50 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34864 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34864 In article , James Cloos writes: > There are also still at least a couple of things I forgot to mention. > Server-side unicode fonts are limited to the bmp, so one cannot edit > scripts that use non-bmp characters w/o switching to client-side > fonts. Client-side fonts are also necessary to take full advantage > of opentype features. And, from a viewpoint of multilingualization, the biggest advantage of using local-side font (via Xft or by freetype directly) is that we can access such OpenType tables as GSUB/GPOS for Indic, and etc. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org