On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Brian Stell wrote: >Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 07:44:12 -0800 >From: Brian Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: XFree86 Font List <fonts.XFree86.Org> >Subject: Re: [Fonts]Quick question on the BDF fonts > >What happens when the iso10646 font does not have all the >char/glyphs in a iso8859-x encoding?
Probably the same thing that happens right now, whatever that is. I presume that we only generate encodings of which all glyphs are available now. >The strageties I can think of are: > > 1) produce a iso8859-x font with missing glyphs > > This seems likely to cause "blank" chars to be > displayed. It's my impression that most X apps tend > to assume that non-iso10646 X fonts have all the > glyphs in the encoding and do not actually query the > font for the valid glyph list. Without knowing the > valid glyph list there is no way to fill in the > missing glyphs from other fonts. > > 2) don't make the iso8859-x font 3) Someone who wants the complete glyphset of the given font in an encoding which is incomplete, works on adding those missing glyphs to the font. Just another option. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
