Speed difference in Gnus

[Ben Wing]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>>"Ben" == Ben Wing <ben at xemacs.org> writes:
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>    Ben> well, there are some fonts that have ...-devanagari-10646-... in them,
>    Ben> which are presumably unicode.
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>Yeah, I know, but I can't get them to work (haven't tried in a while,
>though, because I'm using Xft almost all the time now).  AFAICT the
>standard X11R6 functions didn't handle them at all, and the XFree86
>extensions wanted UTF-8 and did something magic internally.
>
>Basically I think the way to go is fontconfig/Xft.
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actually, it doesn't look as bad as i thought.  there is such a thing as 
XwcDrawImageString, which is a standard part of x windows and which 
accepts a Unicode string as well as an XFontSet, which collects a bunch 
of fonts together [although what it does if more than one font in the 
fontset contains a glyph for a particular character is anyone's guess 
...].  the definition of XCreateFontSet has a bunch of bogosity about 
locales and charsets and fonts that possibly must exist for a particular 
charset depending on the "locale definition in Xlib", and naturally such 
definitions are nowhere to be found, but there's probably a reasonable 
way of handling this that will work fairly generally.