Here's how I'm planning on doing the encoding selection,
so someone tell me if this either isn't going to work or
if there's a better way to do it. I'm planning on
simply pulling out the encoding field from the XLFDs
in the fonts.dir (that's what the field is for, anyway).
I guess I'll then just make user-friendly names for common
sets ("Latin 1", "Latin 2", "Cyrillic", "Greek", etc.). My
uncertainty is about mapping those user-friendly names
to actual encodings. Will there always be a 1:1 mapping
of, say, "Latin 1" to "iso-8859-1"? Will "Greek" always
fall into, say "iso-8859-5", or will there be different
flavors of local languages spread across different
ISO encodings?
-- Shaw Terwilliger