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Lessen our fontconfig (and freetype) dependencies

fontconfig is nobody's favorite font enumeration api. The configuration is far too complex, and FcFontSort is a performance disaster.

freetypes broken locking is too hard to work around. We have the following plan:

  • use harfbuzz for loading fonts (this drops support for bitmap and type1 fonts)
  • use harfbuzz for font and glyph metrics
Edited by Matthias Clasen