[sldev] win32 libs zipfile on wiki seems rather empty...

[Tofu Linden]

Alissa Sabre wrote:
> I konw it, because I'm using platform's font in the VWR-10131 patches,
> and the differences of the font metrics affect a lot of places of the
> viewer behaviour.  But, Tofu, please remember that SL font has only
> Latin-1 coverage.  Chinese, Japanese and Korean UI (among the current
> LL supported languages) use platform specific fallback fonts.  I
> believe the right direction is changing the viewer code to handle
> various fonts so that any good font works with the viewer, as opposed
> to looking for a single set of (better) SL font and hard-code to that
> particular SL fonts.

I agree.  This is a temporary solution to plug a conspicuous hole
right now, as there is no ETA on a longer-term fix (finding and
laying-out fonts is only part of the problem - our widget layout
system is still based on fixed label sizes, so we can't exploit
arbitrary fonts properly even if the font rendering system were
completely superb; absolute predictability is still desirable,
and that comes firstmost by bundling fonts).