international fonts and character encodings

[Basil Fowler]

Dear all,

Thank you for your contributions about 10646 - I was obviously wrong!

From my limited point of view, I got the Arabic/Farsi to work with Microsoft 
fonts.

In a couple of my postings I included embedded Arabic / Farsi characters.  
When the postings came back to me, the characters were properly rendered.  It 
would be interesting to hear from others if and how those characters were 
rendered on their mail readers.

Basil  



On Thursday 26 Feb 2004 10:08 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Basil Fowler wrote:
> > James,
> > 
> > One of the gotchas with truetype fonts is that a special program has to
> > be used to generate fonts.dir.  It is 'mkttfdir'.
> 
> Actually, the new version: >= 4.3.0 of XFree86 contains new:  "mkfontscale"
>   & "mkfontdir" that are *supposed* to handle TrueType fonts.  As I implied,
> there might be a problem with them that is the cause of this.  I also find
> that I do not have an encoding for "8859-6" and that might also be a 
problem.
> 
> > Once this is done, the resulting 'fonts.dir' has to be copied to
> > 'fonts.scale' in the same directory.
> 
> I always preferred to run have "mkttfdir" produce the: "fonts.scale" and 
> then run: "mkfontdir" to make the: "fonts.dir".
> 
> So, I removed "fonts.scale" & "fonts.dir" and opened the directory with the 
> KDE Font Installer (su mode) and it produced a: "fonts.dir" that does 
> include the "8859-6" entries.  Go figure. :-|
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It would be nice if KDE used the KDE Font Installer to do that when KDE 
> started up rather than the broken code in the: "startkde" script.  However, 
> for the system level fonts, it would have to be KDM that called it since it 
> would have to be run as root.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> No, there is just one UniCode.  The "-1" is just there to conform to the 
> format of the XLFD lines.
> 
> --
> JRT
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