Linux + Firefox + CJK chars

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:59:08AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> I'd be a bit careful with Cyberbit. I know machines are a lot beefier
> than they used to be, but having a single TTF of 23MB in memory isn't
> going to do anyting for your font rendering speed. Proofing a page in
> Cyberbit once locked up my Sun Ultra 10 for five minutes.

Do you think it actually loads the whole font into ram rather than just
the characters it is currently using?

> The output from 'xset q' might be more useful, as would looking through
> /etc/fonts/local.conf. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ looks the same to
> me, too, but I also have /usr/share/fonts/corefonts (MS Core Fonts;
> which don't have CJKV, being WGL4) and /usr/share/fonts/ttf-gentium (SIL
> Gentium, an attempt to do a true and complete Unicode font for free).

Lennart Sorensen
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