Hi, (I am not subscribing debian-x. Please Cc: debian-devel or me.)
At Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:06:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) wrote: > It looks like some font names are underspecified. If you request a > font such as > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-* > > then the first matching font will be selected; which font is the first > depends on many factors, like the exact details of the hashing > algorithm used in the server. > > In order to avoid that, you should more fully specify the font, saying > something like: > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-iso8859-1 > > This change should be made either in the users resource database > (xrdb, .Xdefaults, etc.), or in the application defaults files > (XTerm.ad, etc.), depending on the exact setup that you're using. I heard this uncertainty is important for non-Latin-1 people (though this cannot be applied for miltibyte languages). For example, Russian people change their font path in XF86Config so that 'fixed' specifies KOI8-R font. This is the easiest way to change many many X softwares to work with KOI8-R font. Of course the right way is to modify softwares to use XFontSet instead of XFontStruct and be locale-sensible. BTW, I think Xterm need modification that we can specify fonts for Unicode mode separately from non-Unicode font. At first, I thought of suggesting modification of default fonts from 'fixed' to '-foobar-iso10646-1'. Since iso10646-1 font is upward-compatible to iso8859-1, it also works for Latin-1 mode. However, I found this breaks the tricks Russian (and other non-Latin-1 people) do. However, I want Xterm in Unicode mode to automatically select Unicode fonts... --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/
