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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, jasonr@f2s.com, brep@163.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font name not decoded in the output of describe-font
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:17:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6yg7cus.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LCRn9-0005Tz-8X@etlken.m17n.org>

Kenichi Handa writes:

 > For Xft backend, the problem is fontconfig.  It seems that
 > it always provide an UTF-8 encoded name, but I couldn't find
 > a document saying that clearly.

I haven't found a specification that says so myself, but Aidan Kehoe
says it's clear from the source of fontconfig that it's UTF-8.  I
can't imagine why that would change in the future so it's probably
safe to assume it (at least for user presentation purposes).





  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-16  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-13 14:18 font name not decoded in the output of describe-font brep
2008-12-13 17:55 ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-16  1:36   ` Miles Bader
2008-12-16  1:46     ` jasonr
2008-12-16  4:44       ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-16  8:17         ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-12-16  8:52           ` Miles Bader
2008-12-17  4:37             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-19  5:44             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-14 14:16 ` brep

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