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Re: X11 - WindowMaker characters issues after update



On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Yorick Hardy wrote:
> This might be more pango fallout:
> 
>  https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/05/25/pango-future-directions/
> 
>  "Using Harfbuzz for font loading means that we will lose support
>  for bitmap and type1 fonts. We think this is an acceptable trade-off,
>  but others might disagree. Note that Harfbuzz does support loading
>  bitmap-only OpenType fonts."

Ouch - I was wondering where all the funny unicode encodings in firefox
came from...

Guess we should back out that update (or create alternatives).

Martin


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