reassign 264016 xfonts-base
thanks
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:06:45 -0700, Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Package: fvwm Version: 2.5.10-10 Severity: minor
> I just started using the en_US.UTF-8 locale and ran into a small
> issue with fvwm. My understanding is when specifying traditional X
> fonts, one should put a * in the encoding field, and the system will
> pick the correctly encoded font. In particular, you should not use
> the short aliases such as "fixed", which hard-code the iso8859-1
> encoding. It seems that FvwmForm hard-codes fixed for its fonts, so
> that lots of "null" characters showed up in forms. I added the
> lines
> An alternate view is that the short aliases should use a * encoding,
> so that they work in all locales. If you think this is the case, I
> can suggest this to the xfonts-base maintainer.
Indeed. The short forms are aliases provided by the system so
that applications do not have to worry about font selection, or
at least have a sane default to fall back upon. As such, the aliases
should point to fonts that arte indeed sane; and this means there is
only one place to change this setting, rather than requiring all
applications do so.
manoj
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