<quote who="Mike MacCana">

> > Very few modern programs use X core fonts, or server-side font rendering
> > at all anymore.
> 
> So the font server can only do old-school style X core fonts, rather than
> fontconfig niftiness?

Yes. fontconfig, Xft and friends are all there to pull us out of the X core
font mess so we can actually do sane, data-aware things with fonts in every
application.

- Jeff

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