Subject: Re: Font Dialog UI
From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 18:45:33 CST
--On Wednesday, January 02, 2002 8:22 AM +0000 Andrew Dunbar
<hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid they're not the same. On Linux, "encoding"
> has to do with X's 8-bit fonts - you get to choose
> which 8-bit encoding to use, unless you're using
> TrueType fonts I guess.
The only entry here is 'Placeholder', at least it was last time I looked
and still seems to be.
Will this do anything on Linux?
> On Windows they solved the
> 8-bit font problem back in Windows 3.1 but as a
> convenience you can choose by script or writing
> system such as Roman, Arabic, Cyrillic etc. On
> Linux the user has to know about encodings, on Windows
> s/he doesn't.
>
OK, I can doc the Windows bit, then. Thanks.
David Chart
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