Article 4TCWF Pango Dropping Support For Bitmap Fonts Is Frustrating Some Linux Desktop Users

Pango Dropping Support For Bitmap Fonts Is Frustrating Some Linux Desktop Users

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Cleaning up of the Pango layout engine library as some much needed housekeeping by GNOME developers resulted in shifting to the Harfbuzz library for font loading. That quietly meant dropping support for bitmap fonts from Pango, which is now reaching Linux desktop users when upgrading to the Pango 1.44 stable release...
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