Le jeu. 17 sept. 2020 à 14:01, Werner LEMBERG <
wl@gnu.org> a écrit :
> These are some horrible numbers that essentially test FT_Load_Glyph
> from compressed unifont.pcf.gz in reverse order: [...]
We do, there is no "rewinding the compressed stream", we have to restart from the first byte of the file everytime we need to go back in the file.
[...]
So in theory, something like that could be added. It's just seems a lot of complexity for little practical benefits imho.
Is this also true for pcf.Z and pcf.bz2? I would like to warn about this in the docs.
Yes, absolutely! Historically, these font files are legacy from X11 and no-one sane should be using these (there are TrueType equivalents for all of these as far as understand).