The reason that emacs-snapshot does not have Xft support yet is because
we are waiting for the unicode-2 branch to be merged into mainline
Emacs.  I see reports of breakage concerning unicode-2 about once a week
on the Emacs development list due to it not being in mainline yet --
this is way too much of a risk for the emacs-snapshot package to include
it.

One possible solution would be to make a separate emacs-
snapshot-<some_name> package that has the unicode-2 branch, but I have
yet to think of a good choice for <some_name>.  It is hard to predict
how soon unicode-2 will be merged ...  but given that multi-tty support
is not even in yet, it might perhaps be worthwhile for us to make a
separate package.

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Wishlist: Xft/Freetype support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68461
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