utf-8 and unicode fonts on LINUX

From: kefas (pmr@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de)
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 06:38:04 CST

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    On Sunday 21 November 2004 01:05 am, Edward H. Trager
    wrote:
    >  (2) Encode the page using UTF-8.  Good Unicode
    > editors will allow you to save the page in UTF-8.
    I tried UTF-8 export to send an e-mail that contained
    several scattered unicode codepoints from the full
    16-bit range from oooo to ffff from XP+Word to the
    university's Linux/Mozilla/OpenOffice/Kmail, enabled
    UTF-8 support. With very disappointing results.

    1. Do I expect too much assuming that UTF-8 just
    recodes the full 16-range in 8-bit but that
    text-programs with UTF-8 enabled should be able to
    reconstruct the full 16-bit range (as far as used)?

    2. Linux is able to install MS-character sets:
    Can you tell me what parameters I ave to provide for
    the Arial Unicode MS font
    xset asks for a font.dir with parameters like:
    bwhebb.ttf panose-1:2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3 4;
            mso-font-charset:0;
            mso-generic-font-family:roman;
            mso-font-pitch:variable;
            mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;

    Thanks
    Kefas

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