[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:59:07PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:41:28 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > I think it's time to deprecate the bitmap font support and move to
> > FreeType.  We can start by removing the font download links from the
> > homepage and update the documentation to tell people to use TrueType
> > fonts instead.  Eventually we could turn off bitmap font support by
> > default.
> 
> what about people using MPlayer on embedded systems?
> For them bitmap fonts are smaller than using ttf's.
> 
> What is the reason to remove bitmap font support?
> Does it hurt anyone?

Yes, most of our bitmap fonts do not work with UTF-8 and nobody cares to
fix them. So slowly but surely all non-ascii characters will stop
working with those.
Also they tend to look ugly and many people seem to use them just
because they don't know better, not because they intended to...
Also we are discussing "turn off bitmap font support by default", not
removing it.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger