Re: [Devel] font format corner cases

[Werner LEMBERG]

> There is still the issue of how best to handle things like gzip(1)ed
> files.  It seems that the next level up from ft should handle that,
> so perhaps ftview and friends should be patched to try using libz to
> access files that fail with FT_New_Face(), yes?

As you correctly say, this should be done one level higher than
FreeType.  I haven't experimented with libz, but I think that
FreeType's memory management is flexible enough to provide hooks
which you can use for compressed streams.

Do you want to contribute something? :-)


    Werner