Unicode

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> 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.

OTOH it can improve readability of small outline fonts (probably one 
should use bitmap ones there but in most cases one doesn't).

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Jakub Piotr Cłapa