--On Wednesday, January 02, 2002 8:22 AM +0000 Andrew Dunbar 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm afraid they're not the same.  On Linux, "encoding"
> has to do with X's 8-bit fonts - you get to choose
> which 8-bit encoding to use, unless you're using
> TrueType fonts I guess.

The only entry here is 'Placeholder', at least it was last time I looked 
and still seems to be.

Will this do anything on Linux?

> On Windows they solved the
> 8-bit font problem back in Windows 3.1 but as a
> convenience you can choose by script or writing
> system such as Roman, Arabic, Cyrillic etc.  On
> Linux the user has to know about encodings, on Windows
> s/he doesn't.
>

OK, I can doc the Windows bit, then. Thanks.

David Chart

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