[haiku-development] Re: freetype update from 2.6.5 to 2.7
- From: "Humdinger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "humdingerb" for DMARC)
- To: haiku-development <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:02:28 +0100
On 9 November 2016 at 20:51, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 09/11/2016 um 17:02 schrieb Humdinger (Redacted sender humdingerb for
DMARC):
1. Missing from Noto (compared with DejaVu):
Armenian
[...]
Domino tiles
And the dozens of Noto variants don't help here?
I expect so. At least when it comes to the regional languages. That
would leave the missing/incomplete symbols.
In general I like Noto better now - have been using it for about a
month now - but what sucks a bit is the missing characters in the
"symbol" blocks. Is that disqualifying? I dunno...
Why don't we just try it out?
In general, the app_server should be smart enough to choose a fallback font
that has the glyph, if available at all.
Switching the font will just increase the pressure to actually work on that
finally :-)
Further up in the thread, I didn't deem it a good idea if it meant
ugly rendering. That's with DejaVu under freetype 2.7. If OTOH we
switch to Noto together with 2.7, I'm OK with it as Noto renders
nicely there. Of course, switching to Noto would ease on the mentioned
pressure again... :)
I think we'd better switch to freetype 2.7, now before R1/Beta, if it
otherwise wouldn't make it into R1 (see Beta == feature-complete).
Regards,
Humdinger
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