John Cowan wrote on 1998-12-11 14:50 UTC:
> I speak under correction, but I believe the trouble is that X
> applications have no way to discern which fonts have large
> character sets.
I don't understand what you mean here. X applications can certainly find
out, which ISO 10646-1 fonts are installed on a system. For instance on
any of my X terminals I get
$ xlsfonts -fn '*-iso10646-1'
-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
-mutt-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1
-mutt-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-97-iso10646-1
If I specify to an application that I want to have one of the above
specific *-iso10646-1 fonts, then I think it is fair for the application
to assume that I take over responsibility that the specified font is
complete enough for my purposes.
Markus
-- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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