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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: pipcet@protonmail.com
Cc: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>,
	 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	 emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master bf0aeaa0d7a: Re-enable displaying `han' characters on Android
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:54:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s54ikwhvepr.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o769wue4.fsf@protonmail.com> (pipcet@protonmail.com's message of "Sat, 03 Aug 2024 14:31:02 +0000")

pipcet@protonmail.com writes:

> Thanks! So supporting these fonts on Android using the sfnt driver is
> very hard, correct?

Yes, it would amount to writing a new font driver.

> The androidfont.c fallback driver appears to support them, but I
> understand that's not a good option either. (I tried
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font-backend "android") and the difference
> in a C-h h buffer was quite noticeable).

Correct.

> In any case, asking users to install an extra font only to see basic
> CJK glyphs can't be a long-term solution, can it?

Till someone implements the aforesaid new font driver, why not?  The
font is installed once, and that is the end of the matter, and
ultimately it is the same font that would ideally be loaded from
/system/fonts, with no degredation in quality.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-03 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-31 15:45 master bf0aeaa0d7a: Re-enable displaying `han' characters on Android Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01  0:07 ` Po Lu
2024-08-01  0:33   ` Po Lu
2024-08-01  5:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01  7:55       ` Po Lu
2024-08-01  8:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01  9:47           ` Po Lu
2024-08-01  9:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01 10:13               ` Po Lu
2024-08-01 10:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01 21:17             ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-08-01  5:32   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01  8:16     ` Po Lu
2024-08-01  9:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01 10:30         ` Po Lu
2024-08-01 10:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-02 10:52           ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-08-02 12:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-02 12:55               ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-08-02 13:13                 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-08-03  7:12                   ` pipcet
2024-08-03  8:52                     ` Po Lu
2024-08-03  9:21                       ` pipcet
2024-08-03  9:33                         ` Po Lu
2024-08-03 13:13                           ` pipcet
2024-08-03 13:31                             ` Po Lu
2024-08-03 14:31                               ` pipcet
2024-08-03 14:54                                 ` Po Lu [this message]
2024-08-07 17:52                                   ` Pip Cet
2024-08-08  0:10                                     ` Po Lu
2024-08-09 12:33                                       ` Pip Cet
2024-08-09 13:10                                         ` Po Lu
2024-08-03 15:15                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-02 10:44       ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-08-02 11:42         ` Po Lu
2024-08-01  7:57   ` Andrea Corallo

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