Subject: Unicode fonts and clipboard
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sat Apr 28 2001 - 04:50:44 CDT
With Markus' permission, here's a copy of some additional information about
the Unicode X fonts.
Also of interest are his comments about an emerging standard for UTF8-format
clipboard content on Unix. Given that we already have UTF8 imp/exp support,
this should be quite easy to add (if we haven't already).
Any volunteers?
Paul
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>Subject: Re: [owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com: BOUNCE
abiword-dev@abisource.com: Non-member submission from [Markus Kuhn
<Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>]]
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>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:56:55 +0100
>From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
>
>Paul Rohr wrote on 2001-04-27 23:05 UTC:
>> 2. The news about 10646 encodings of the X fonts is welcome. (Finally,
>> XP bullets!) Are there any license issues on distributing them?
>
>No. They are in the public domain and they are about to become part of
>the standard X distributions, so you shouldn't really have to distribute
>them separately. They will in half a year be available on all new X11
>installations anyway (the -misc-fixed-* fonts used by xterm are already
>shipping with the major Linux distributions for instance). Just test
>them with your application.
>
>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
>
>By the way, there is now a standardized way for Unicode cut&paste (using
>the UTF8_STRING atom instead of STRING or COMPOUND_TEXT), which you
>might want to support in Abiword. You can test it with the UTF-8 capable
>Xterm that comes with XFree86 4 or later.
>
>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#x11
>
>> I'll leave it up to folks like Tomas and Vlad to decide how to avoid
>> conflicts between those fonts and the ones we currently ship.
>
>The fonts that we produced are just extensions of the already existing
>ISO 8859-1 X11 fonts towards a feasible coverage of ISO10646-1. The rest
>of the font names (XLFD) remained unchanged.
>
>Thanks for the quote!
>
>Markus
>
>--
>Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
>Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
>
>
>
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