Re: Lost antialias?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Cc: handa@m17n.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:29:26 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> It's fontconfig that does it, not Emacs.
> >
> > But Emacs calls it, doesn't it?  So we could set up things for the
> > results to be consistent across LANG settings, if we decide that to be
> > TRT.
> 
> I don't necessarily disagree with that, but the question is whether such
> an effort to "be consistent" would incur too much cost -- for instance,
> inconsistency with other modern apps, or ignoring user-specified global
> settings.
> 
> I think that Stefan has a good point when he says we should rely on
> existing mechanisms to the extent that they work acceptably.
> 
> I'd like to know what e.g., Gnome apps do in this case

100% agreement.  That's precisely why I asked in my original mail how
do other GUI applications behave wrt LANG settings.