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- From: ib@ivan.esd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach)
- Subject: Re: IRIX and (not) ISO 8859-1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.142432.8373@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Followup-To: <4BK612G@math.fu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:24:32 GMT
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- In <4BK612G@math.fu-berlin.de>, heiko@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko
- Schlichting) writes:
- > o The character set in several Screen fonts was extended
- > from the ASCII character set to the ISO 8859-1
- > character set.
- >
- > Really? I can't find them ...
- The following Screen fonts were extended from the ASCII to the ISO 8859-1
- character set:
-
- -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--13-130-72-72-m-70-iso8859-1
- -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--15-150-72-72-m-80-iso8859-1
- -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-m-80-iso8859-1
- -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--18-180-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
-
- You can use the following font name aliases for these fonts:
-
- screen13 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-130-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
- screen15 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-150-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
- screen16 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-160-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
- screen18 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-180-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-
- These aliases are defined in the file /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias.
-
- If you enter commands such as:
-
- xfd -fn -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--18-180-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
- xfd -fn screen15
-
- you will see all characters in the specified font.
-
- > all useable fonts doesn't have the ISO 8859-1 character set, even if the
- > name contains "-iso8859-1":
- > e.g: -schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal--15-150-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
- I don't know why Dale Schumacher (dal@syntel.mn.org) puts "iso8859-1" in
- the names of fonts which do not contain all characters from the ISO 8859-1
- character set. I think that some people interpret the character encoding
- specification "iso8859-1" as meaning that those characters which are provided
- have been assigned the codes specified in the ISO standard.
-
- I think that all those text fonts distributed by the X Consortium whose names
- contain "iso8859-1" should be extended to the full ISO 8859-1 character set by
- the people who designed those fonts. I sent that suggestion to the X
- Consortium about a year ago. Dale Schumacher's fonts are copyrighted. Only
- Dale Schumacher can extend those fonts, or give somebody a written permission
- to extend them. It takes a skilled font designer to extend an existing font.
-
- > Anyone knows a source for -sgi-screen-bold-* fonts with ISO 8859-1 characters
- They are SGI fonts. We will extend them to the ISO 8859-1 character set as
- soon as we can.
-
- Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com
-