xft, fonts and charsets

[Olivier Galibert]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:48:35AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> In XEmacs, XFT is just a font rendering engine on top of redisplay's
> charset handling.  It maps a charset to a font, then calls XftDrawString
> etc in exactly the same way as we call XDrawString in non-XFT builds.

Ok thanks.  I'll take that into account.

The comment just before separate_textual_run[1] talks about Xft
Reloaded which would use utf-8 runs.  The function actually uses
big-endian BMP unicode (well, reverse-endian in practice, but let's
call that a bug).  Is that something that was, that will be, or that
would just be nice (to reach outside of the BMP)?

  OG.

[1] The function I'm playing with lately.