Re: How do you display 2-byte fonts with Xlib?

From: дамјан г. (mk_at_net.mail.penguinista)
Date: 03/01/04


Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:51:45 +0100


> Are there any Xlib programming gurus out there? I'm working through the
> "Xlib programmin manual" (by Adrian Nye... as far as I can tell, this is
> the only printed X programming guide), and it refers to 2-byte fonts,
> but doesn't elaborate much as to their use.

Just use XFT2/Fontconfig .. it'll work on every X server (its client side,
but can use Xrender acceleration if available) ... it has better font
support, anti-alliasing, UTF-8 etc...

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