Re: Unicode TTF containing CJK?

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:07:16PM +0200, tlug-request@example.com wrote:
> But xfs as contained in XFree86 4.x will work. And you don't have to
> use a font server if you don't want to, the "freetype" module as well
> as the "xtt" module of XFree86 4.x can handle something like
> Microsoft's Arial Unicode as well.

Yes, after much fiddling, I got it working with the freetype module.

> It is very slow though, opening Microsoft's Arial Unicode takes more
> than 30 seconds on my 500 MHz Pentium III. When you use the "freetype"
> or "xtt" modules of XFree86 4.x, your whole X-server will freeze
> during that time.

Huh, weird, seems fine here. You ran ttmkfdir and mkfontdir in your
truetype fonts directory?

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