international fonts and character encodings

[Basil Fowler]

James,

One of the gotchas with truetype fonts is that a special program has to be 
used to generate fonts.dir.  It is 'mkttfdir' .  Once this is done, the 
resulting 'fonts.dir' has to be copied to 'fonts.scale' in the same 
directory.

The older Red Hat distros had an excellent init script kept in 
/etc/rc.d/init.d that automatically updated all font directories on startup 
if needed.

You produced a whole load of fonts encoded 10646-1.  My guess for Arabic - and 
other languages using the Arabic alphabet - would be that the encoding should 
be 10646-6. But perhaps others could check this out. 

On Thursday 26 Feb 2004 2:11 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> We are left with a mystery here.  The solution to it may or may not be
> relevant to his problem.
> 
> I have those fonts installed, however I do not have those entries in my
> fonts.dir.
> 
> [root at localhost fonts]# cat  msttfonts/fonts.dir |grep "8859-6"
> [root at localhost fonts]# cat  msttfonts/fonts.dir |grep "10646" |grep 
"edium-"
> andalemo.ttf -monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
> arial.ttf -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1

> Note that the first command lists nothing and that I had to add "edium-"
> to the second one to shorten the list.
> 
> I really don't have an explanation, but it probably has something to do
> with XFree86 and the font installer programs.
> 
> It is my understanding that these fonts are UniCode encoded but that
> XFree86 will subset them.  In his case, I think that this isn't relevant
> since he will probably want to use utf8 encoding for his files.  I don't
> know exactly what I would do on my system to use 8859-6 encoding in non-KDE
> programs
> 
> --
> JRT
> 
> 
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