Xft provides a pure Unicode API to applications; it currently contains translations for a few common TrueType encodings to map those to Unicode, but I don't plan on adding the huge amount of data necessary to transcode the encodings found in PCF files.
Instead, I'd like to suggest that we create a separate tool that can transcode the fonts not already available in a Unicode version into Unicode for use by all Freetype based applications. One important question is whether XFree86 currently contains fonts with glyphs not covered by Unicode; Freetype has support accessessing unencoded glyphs in other formats, it may be that we just need to create similar infrastructure for PCF files. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
