Comment 14 for bug 68461

The reason that emacs-snapshot does not have Xft support yet is because we are waiting for the unicode-2 branch to be merged into mainline Emacs. I see reports of breakage concerning unicode-2 about once a week on the Emacs development list due to it not being in mainline yet -- this is way too much of a risk for the emacs-snapshot package to include it.

One possible solution would be to make a separate emacs-snapshot-<some_name> package that has the unicode-2 branch, but I have yet to think of a good choice for <some_name>. It is hard to predict how soon unicode-2 will be merged ... but given that multi-tty support is not even in yet, it might perhaps be worthwhile for us to make a separate package.