RE: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts

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> From owner-linux-utf8@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fri Mar 30 14:33:03 2001
> 
>   With X-TT included in XF86 4.0, do we want/need to convert TTF
> to BDF? How good is X-TT at rendering TTF fonts at small size for
> screen? Maybe it's dependent not just on X-TT's rendering ability but
> also on whether  TTF  in question has 'bitmap' embedded for small
> size and things like that.

We may not need the convertion these days.

In terms of poor TTF rendering quality under X, I think it is because
of no anti-aliasing support at the moment.  Even though 4.0.2 has Xft,
but the support at the application level will still need time.

Regards,

Yao Zhang
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