Bug#494933: charmap.app: the range switching is terribly slow

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

В 09:50 +0200 на 13.08.2008 (ср), Michal Suchanek написа:
> When switching to a rarer range (like Cherokee) the applicatin locks up
> for noticable time (in the range of minutes) eating 100% cpu.

Thanks for the report.  I suspect this is a bug in the GNUstep art
backend, perhaps even Debian-specific (due to changes for the
interaction with Defoma and font registration).

Could you please install the gnustep-back0.14-cairo package, then do as
a normal user:

$ defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend libgnustep-cairo

Then restart Charmap and share your observations?  Switching ranges
happens almost instantly for me, on a much less powerful machine than
yours.