[oi-dev] Fwd: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 12/20/10 07:57 AM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> 
> What is the reason for bitmapped fonts not being disabled as in
> upstream fontconfig and the big Linux distros?

I didn't realize we were different than upstream.   I believe the
reason it's there is because the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
fonts often look much better in bitmaps than scaled, due to the
difficulty of well hinting 20,000+ glyphs, but would have to defer
to i18n folks to give a more authoritative answer.

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