Unicode

[Russell Shaw]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>BTW, is it only me that thinks anti-aliased text rendering
>>is a Really Bad Idea?
> 
> It's a perfectly good idea for graphic design and DTP, where you need
> to be able to use arbitrary font sizes (and hence outline fonts).
> 
> It doesn't make sense when you are simply displaying textual
> information, where the finite choice of sizes provided by unscaled
> bitmap fonts isn't a problem.

IMHO, anti-aliasing would be acceptable when the font size is set
above a certain threshhold, where grey pixels around the edges
are greatly outnumbered by black pixels.