Re: master bf0aeaa0d7a: Re-enable displaying `han' characters on Android

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com> writes:

>>   https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans
>
>> and its binaries are generated from the same source code by ADFKO
>> (though I am surprised to learn that this source is not in UFO format).
>
> I don't think it's the "source" at all. It's an intermediate binary,
> produced by a proprietary tool (as Adobe states), probably from a
> similarly proprietary, actual source format.
>
> Anyway, as for technical issues, the Type 1 font in the Source Han Sans
> CID is clearly closer to the source than the TrueType fonts are. Thus,
> there is some quality degradation when I, or when Google, generates a
> TrueType font from it.

Be that as it may, there is no perceptible difference between the two,
if hinting is disabled for the OTF original.

At all events, I do invite interested persons to undertake implementing
support for OTF font files in a manner that does not require Freetype,
Fontconfig, or further dependencies.  This might be feasible (so far as
Noto and other outline fonts are concerned) without also supporting
color glyphs.