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Note the dropping of BDF font support on Windows.
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:52:15 +0000
parents 3e9c34bd95b3
children 714750f0bc0f
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Thu Jul 31 10:04:21 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Thu Jul 31 11:52:15 2008 +0000
@@ -923,6 +923,16 @@
 w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil.  See the doc string of that variable
 for the list of extra keys that are available.
 
+** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows.
+The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus
+on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode
+support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts.  A
+rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time
+and developers.  If demand still exists for such a backend even with
+the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future
+development in this direction will most likely be based on the
+freetype library, giving access to a wider range of font formats.
+
 
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