bug#14993: [PATCH] Update information about fonts

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>,  14993@debbugs.gnu.org,  xfq.free@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:32:05 +1100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>
> >> Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, 14993@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:10:57 +0900
> >> 
> >> In article <83k3k6wx44.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Btw, if we are deprecating Intlfonts, should we keep ps-bdf.el?  And
> >> > if we drop ps-bdf.el, can we add some ps-otf.el instead?  Perhaps
> >> > Handa-san could comment on this.
> >> 
> >> I was working on ps-ttf.el several years ago, but couldn't
> >> finish it because of lack of time, and that code didn't have
> >> a facility of CTL (Complex Text Layouting).  Nowadays I
> >> think we can utilize cairo to generate ps or pdf, but I'm
> >> not sure I can find a time to work on it.
> >
> > In that case, perhaps it's too soon to deprecate Intlfonts, since
> > there's no other way of printing non-ASCII characters with ps-print.
> 
> Has anything changed in this area now?  (It's two years later...)

I don't think so.  We do have Cairo support, though.