| --- On Tue 02/17, Ming Hua < minghua@rice.edu > wrote: >From: Ming Hua [mailto: minghua@rice.edu] >To: frank_hu@excite.com >Cc: debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.orgDate: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:16:03 -0600 >Subject: Re: xfs-xtt not showing Chinese >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:19:36PM -0500, frank_hu@excite.com wrote: >> I have searched the archive and didn't find anything. I doubt that I'm >> the only one who has the problem. I'm using SID. When I use xfs-xtt as >> the font server, Chinese from *some* websites can't be displayed, e.g. >> www.chinatex.org. The Chinese characters in the bookmarks can't be >> displayed, either. The characters are all shown as a sign like a >> flipped "L". > > Xfs can howoever display Chinese for every site I tried. >> But xfs doesn't understand TT hints too well and the font is *ugly*. >If I remember correctly, xfs stands for X fonts server, which should has >nothing to do with font rendering. If you use freetype, you can still >use xfs. Does xfs rely on freetype to rasterize TT fonts and then serve to X? In fact, if I choose between the xtt module and freetype module come with XFree86 and don't use font servers at all, I have the same problem. I.e., xtt provides better rendering but doesn't show Chinese in every scenario. Xfs shows Chinese characters correctly, but not pretty. Frank |