From: Jason Rumney Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:52:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Note the dropping of BDF font support on Windows. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~3766 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a263588af17ad5ba3105b366bb9ec6596262a46;p=emacs.git Note the dropping of BDF font support on Windows. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 95ac4eb3bdd..f456712a17b 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -923,6 +923,16 @@ Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable for the list of extra keys that are available. +** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows. +The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus +on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode +support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A +rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time +and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with +the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future +development in this direction will most likely be based on the +freetype library, giving access to a wider range of font formats. + * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1