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- From: paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: IRIX and (not) ISO 8859-1
- Message-ID: <paffe0s@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:24:27 GMT
- References: <4BK612G@math.fu-berlin.de>
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- In article <4BK612G@math.fu-berlin.de>, heiko@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko Schlichting) writes:
- |> Found in IRIX Release Notes 4.0.5:
- |>
- |> [...]
- |> 12. Fonts
- |> [...]
- |> 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 - 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
-
- This simply isn't true. The schumacher fonts do lie about their encoding;
- I don't know why -they're not even ascii- and we'll take that as a bug.
-
- But of the 663 fonts in 4.0.5, 563 are ISO 8859-1, even after removing the
- schumacher fonts.
-
- |> Other important fonts does not have the ISO 8859-1 character set too:
- |> e.g: -sgi-screen-bold-r-normal--14-140-72-72-m-80--ascii
-
- Pointing out that there are 20 -sgi-screen*ascii fonts in 4.0.5
- hardly substantiates a claim that there are no usable ISO fonts.
- There are well in excess of 500 of them. 334 come from Adobe,
- 140 from Bigelow & Holmes, and 50 from Bitstream, amonmg others.
-
- You can look through them with xfontsel(1) or try this:
- xlsfonts '*iso8859*' | grep -v schumacher
-
- --
-
- -Tom
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