Re: Fonts in XFree86 4.1.0

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

Around 18 o'clock on Jun 7, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> >   2) a significant portion of the client-side apps know to ask for ISO 10646
> >      (and better-specified fonts in general)

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:41:43PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> I hope this never happens -- using 10646 X fonts will bloat the X server 
> and all applications by a huge amount.

Please explain?

A typical app just specifies a font and sends out a character stream.
How would this bloat an app?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul