On 13 Jun 2002 06:42:28 +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> 
> > I think encoding=utf-8: is a good syntax; encoding is applied to strings
> > and ideally (i.e. hopefully) users will not confuse it with font charset.
>  
> Here the problem is that we can have a confusion with xft font name
> which use "encoding=*". What about "string_encoding=*" or "str_encoding=*"
> or "StrEncoding=*" or "StringEncoding=*" (and change shadow= to Shadow=
> in the man page; of course the code will be case insensitive).

StringEncoding=utf-8 seems ok to avoid confusion with encoding=iso10646-1.

> BTW, the new code will be ready on Monday (at least half ready as there
> are pbs in the implementation: text conversion are done each time a
> Flocale text drawing or text width function is called, as conversion
> should be done only when the text change; I will come back on this pbs
> later). This may cause 2.5.2 release delay, if you plan to release it
> next week.

We are not in harry, I suggested this week, because I have some time for
this, I am not sure yet about the next week.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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