You are preaching to the choir... but emacs-snapshot will support Xft/Freetype when the emacs-unicode branch is merged in mainline, not before.
Sorry. -- Wishlist: Xft/Freetype support https://launchpad.net/bugs/68461 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs