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Re: [ft] Artwiz font: creating new encoding problems.
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [ft] Artwiz font: creating new encoding problems. |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:48:31 +0100 (CET) |
> Some of you know Artwiz fonts. These are small, non-scalable fonts
> looking like a "machine" print. The sources can be found here :
> http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/. I like them a lot, but
> they had no polish special characters, so I've downloaded sources
> and I've created a polish .bdf files with all characters needed.
> The package mainatiner cannot help me a lot, so I need to do it for
> myself. I have two main problems and I want to solve them both.
>
> 1. bdfs corrupted/fc-cache bug?
Please contact Keith Packard for more help; this issue isn't related
to FreeType, I think.
> 2. Few encodings wih one font - how?
>
> Maintainer of Artwiz fonts created 3 different variants for each
> font. For example - anorexia (english), anorexia.se (swedish) and
> anorexia.de (german). Now I've created fourth - anorexia.pl
> (polish). My variant has all of special characters of these three
> merged. So why do use 4 different fonts as (I can think of) I can
> have one font with all characters, for all encodings. I want font
> to display swedish characters (e.g. Bjork - I want o umlaut
> displayed) even if I'm not a Swede. So I need one font, but good
> for all, not 4 branches! How can I make it with .bdf/.pcf font?
> Can you tell me, or post a tutorial to make it (I didn't find
> anything).
There is a simple solution: Encode your BDF files as Unicode (ISO
10646)! Xft then can map the fonts automatically to code sets like
latin-1 or latin-2.
Werner