Re: [Freetype] Another bug in the BDF backend

[Peter Montgomery]

> Juliusz Chroboczek <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Catering for non-square pixels is not necessary --
> > we do support EGA, but as far as I know, we only have
> > one (1) user with EGA hardware.
>
> The PAL TV standard has non-square pixels.  (It's 720x576 on
> a 4:3 or 16:9 screen).  And interactive TV is quite a big
> market ;-)

For what it's worth, NTSC is also non-square as the D1 standard
specifies 720 X 486 (which is 1.48 to 1) while it displays on TVs that
are 4 X 3 or 1.33 to 1 aspect ratio.

    Thanks,
    PeterM