From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font name not decoded in the output of describe-font Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:52:58 +0900 Message-ID: References: <14448004.281361229177919568.JavaMail.coremail@bj163app29.163.com> <4943F708.9050007@f2s.com> <87y6ygsxyb.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <1229391969.494708614ac3b@webmail.freedom2surf.net> <87y6yg7cus.fsf@xemacs.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229417620 10893 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2008 08:53:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@f2s.com, brep@163.com, Kenichi Handa To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 09:54:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCVhL-00027Z-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:54:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCVg9-0007Jh-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:53:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCVg3-0007Gd-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCVg1-0007Et-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55717 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCVg1-0007Ei-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:45939) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCVfz-0005qu-46; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id mBG8qtWs012787; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:53:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:53:01 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.113.195] [10.114.113.195]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:53:01 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id F131567A; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:52:59 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87y6yg7cus.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:17:47 +0900") Original-Lines: 16 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106957 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" 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 ? -Miles -- Clarionet, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.