Subject: Re: Unicode fonts and clipboard
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 10:22:46 CDT
HI Markus,
Are these fonts Type-1 or ttf? We really need these vector fonts
so we can print them too.
Cheers
Martin
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
> 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
>
>
> >Delivered-To: paul@abisource.com
> >X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3+CL 01/14/2001 with nmh-0.28-pre10
> >To: Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com>
> >Subject: Re: [owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com: BOUNCE
> abiword-dev@abisource.com: Non-member submission from [Markus Kuhn
> <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>]]
> >X-URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/
> >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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