On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:19:15PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Bundling font and encoding together is one of the busted crackmonkey > > features of classic X fonts fixed with fontconfig/Xft2. ;-) > > I was trying hard to stay neutral -- I am not really interested > in a flame war about who is at fault ;-)
Don't worry, some of the same people designed classic X fonts and fontconfig/Xft2, so the same people are to blame either way. ;-) Limits the flames if nothing else. > However it is resolved, it seems to me that these things should "just > work" out of the box. I agree, of course. The problem is that for that to happen, all text must be either: - in Unicode - in some way encoding-tagged, if only implicitly by the current locale (though relying on the locale is very very fragile) For plain text files, often they don't qualify. A historical screwup we'll get fixed someday... (Things that "just work" in Latin-1, when the above two conditions don't exist, are often broken in Asian or Unicode locales for example. "Just work" is good, Europe/USA-only hacks are not.) Havoc
