[GRASS-dev] iconv a required dependency for using Freetype?

[Hamish]

Hamish
> If mixing stroke fonts and TTF fonts in the same list, sorting them by
> name alone would be a pain. I'd rather see the stroke fonts grouped
> together, at either the top or the bottom of the list.

Michael Barton wrote:
> While I can see the value in this, actually doing it would be a real
> pain. I have to sort to remove duplicates. Trying to reorganize the
> list again by pulling out the stroke fonts and moving into a group is
> not easy. Sorry.

so wait to add them until after your sort|uniq?

note the last act of tools/mkftcap is "| sort | uniq", so some of this
work is already done for you. Where do the duplicates come from then?

`sort` has a number of options like --dictionary-order and --ignore-case
which, if cross-platform, could help pre-sort the freetypecap list as
needed. Also note `sort` has a --unique flag, although I am not sure if
that operates just on the --key column or the entire line. If it just
works on the key column, that would be cool, although that means
arbitrarily throwing away (perhaps better) variants.


Hamish