From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>,
jasonr@f2s.com, brep@163.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font name not decoded in the output of describe-font
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:37:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wqf1knt.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo8wqg8psl.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> > 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).
>
> Anyway, since in practice everything uses utf-8, surely it's better to
> assume that until a better solution is found, than returning raw
> undecoded font names ?
Indeed. The question in my mind is how defensive to be about checking
for UTF-8 compatibility. I think it's OK to just decode willy-nilly
and let the errors come if they will (because I'm quite sure they won't).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 4:37 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
2008-12-16 8:52 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-17 4:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-12-19 5:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-14 14:16 ` brep
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