[Devel] Re: ftdump, and oto question.

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> [About very old CJK TTFs which are rejected by FreeType]
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> > Here it is, shei11b.ttf,  bzip2'ed.
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> Thanks.  This is a strange font -- it starts with the byte sequence
> `0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00', while a normal TTF must start with `0x00 0x01
> 0x00 0x00'.  If you change it, the font will be loaded.
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> I don't know how to proceed: Are those fonts (still?) accepted by
> Windows?  Has anybody experienced something similar?
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>    Werner
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The current version of windows (XP, 2000) do not accept them, but I 
think a long time
ago they used to work on win95, I believe.