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Richard Wordingham wrote:
> For OpenType fonts in scripts supported by Uniscribe, that's generally
> the way to go - especially for quick results.  Might Pango be
> superior, even on MS Windows, though?
With the new font-backend design, there is no reason why someone could
not make a pango backend work on Windows. But I think we still need a
native windows backend.