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Re: [Freetype] Supporting Non-Unicode enc. in BDF driver of ft2


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Freetype] Supporting Non-Unicode enc. in BDF driver of ft2
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:32:56 +0200 (CEST)

> >   unicode encoding. The the font is not encoded in Unicode, it
> >   will use adobe standard encoding. Would anyone can tell me the
> >   reason of Unicode encoding only in that piece of code??
> > 
> > Noone has implemented support for other encodings.  Volunteers
> > welcome.
> > 
> I'm actually _against_ implemeting support for legacy BDF/X11
> encodings within FreeType. This is our past, not our future, and
> working on this would be a waste of time.

With `support' I mean the same level of support we have for CJK
TrueType fonts: Returning the proper IDs in a charmap structure.  I
think those additions are rather trivial.


    Werner



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