[Devel] Switching autohint per characters

[UTUMI Hirosi]

Hi,

I think autohint is not so good for complex and square characters 
(i.e. Chinese and Japanese).
See two pictures:
// Disable autohint (good)
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/5207/snapshot/freetype-disable_autohint01jp.png
// Enable autohint (bad)
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/5207/snapshot/freetype-enable_autohint01jp.png
* (original) 
http://slashdot.jp/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/0017206&topic=112&mode=nested

But autohint is better if we show european characters:
// Disable autohint (bad)
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/5207/snapshot/freetype-disable_autohint02en.png
// Enable autohint (good)
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/5207/snapshot/freetype-enable_autohint02en.png
(see "unit-to-unit")
* (original) 
http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/08/31/2320249.shtml?tid=215&tid=207&tid=10&tid=218

I want to use autohint for european characters, but I don't want to use it for
non-european characters. Is it possible?

I got a mail from Frederic Crozat (at Mandrakesoft):
> I strongly suggest you get in touch with Freetype developer on freetype-
> devel for bugs report and tests for CJK and freetype. There aren't many
> CJK people there, which is probably why those patches never get merged
> usptream
There are other good patches?

See also http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker-i18n/2004-08/msg00308.php
I'm using freetype2-current (20040901).
Font = Cyberbit
http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/Cyberbit.ZIP

Thank you for your great work. :-)
Hirosi


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