--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
