ports/73083: firefly patchset for pretty CJK fonts display/print

[Clive Lin]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:33:48PM +0000, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Pango is about to be updated to 1.6.x following the release of 5.3.  After
> that, this patchset will most likely have to be modified.  Once that is done,
> it can be committed.

    Sure, I'm aware of this, and I will keep eyes on it ;)

> I would also like to know what plans, if any, exist for pushing these patches
> upstream?  It would seem like the freetype, fontconfig, and pango people
> would be interested in making CJK fonts as nice as possible.

    Kicking these patchsets into mainstreams of freetype, fontconfig,
pango, and those not mentioned here like openoffice, mozilla, is
underway. There're patches accepted, and patches rejected. Once
acceptable solutions are found, they will be integrated gradually. The
key point is, patches must make both non-CJK and CJK people
happy. Dirty hacks due to incomplete API or simply lack of
completeness in the patches, are reasons why they're still maintained
elsewhere. Ports is a great vehicle to deliver current works and
attract more developers, as long as the patchset is well maintained,
which I promised to do.