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Build Tk with Xft for non-ugly font support in Tkinter
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astral-sh/uv#7848 explicitly requests Xft, and I suspect that astral-sh/uv#14042 is also caused by lack of Xft.
I need to remind myself what the modern Linux font-rendering stack is and how much applies to the less-than-modern Tk and X11. Do we need fontconfig? freetype? harfbuzz? Do we need to ship fonts ourselves?
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