Re: backart - default backend?

[MJ Ray]

Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> wrote:
> I also find the fonts a lot easier than with X - if I need a font I just
> drop it into the fonts directory and there it is. Just like it was under
> NextStep. I can take any old ont off the web, wrap it as an nfont and
> use it. I still can work out how fonts under X11 are supposed to work so
> this is a big win for me. Especially as I need multi-lingual fonts
> and I still ahvent persuaded X to do that.

Now, this is interesting. As mentioned, exactly the opposite
situation is my motive for using back-xlib. I read and write
Latin-1 and Latin-3 almost every day. I didn't get back-art to
use multilingual fonts and couldn't see how to connect it to
the fonts that my X and printer subsystems use.

With X, I think it was a case of installing iso10646-1 fonts
and setting the system locale to en_GB.UTF-8 before X starts.
I probably had to change keyboard layouts too, so that it's
all inputtable. (And is there a small good simple utf-8 console
editor? vile isn't.)

Then, export GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING=NSUTF8StringEncoding and
defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontAntiAlias YES, NSGlobalDomain
GSXEnableFontSet NO and NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask *-iso10646* and
then back-xlib should work.

There might be more to it than that, but I set this up when
installing a while ago and it's survived upgrades since.

Hope that helps someone.

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