Documentation?

Patrick O'Donnell pao at ascent.com
Tue Apr 7 07:57:41 PDT 2009


>Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:37:33 +0200 (CEST)
>From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>
>
>Le Mar 7 avril 2009 12:27, Tuomo Valkonen a écrit :
>
>> The requirements haven't changed in twenty years.
>
>They have. Systems now have Unicode locale as default, and font
>foundries do not use the same formats as twenty years ago.
>
>What has no changed is that apps using core fonts just crash all the
>time.

Hmmmm... Funny: our applications, built primarily even predating X11,
just /don't/ crash.  Period.  Using core fonts.  (If they do, it's the
X server that causes the problem, not the app.)



More information about the xorg mailing list