Re: [Devel] Re: patch: check bdf properties WEIGHT_NAME and SLANT case insensitively

[Federic Zhang]

Agreed with Werner, unnecessary to do this transcode within Freetype.
Actually it can be done in fontconfig with the #if expression which
can contain a bulky of transition code. then the libfontconfig can
still keep compact in some case if the legacy encoding support isn't
needed.

-federic

> > > Note that it just supports both iso10646 and iso8859 charsets, is
> > > it reasonable to support the legacy charsets such as Big5 and
> > > GB2312 etc?
> >
> > You'd have to fix applications to transcode from Unicode to these
> > legacy encodings; the tables in both of these cases are huge.
>
>
> I don't mean that.  If a BDF font contains e.g. a Big5 encoded font,
> the BDF driver shall set FreeType's encoding to FT_ENCODING_BIG5, etc.
> No need to transcode at all (which is beyond FreeType of course).
>
>
>     Werner
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