On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: >> I'd like to clarify an assumption with encodings.dir files. If I >> understand correctly, the encodings.dir files are no longer >> required, having been replaced now by the encodings and >> encodings/large subdirectories. >> >> I read something earlier to the effect that encodings.dir is not >> needed, but is still supported if the files happen to be there. >> >> Is there any useful purpose to me shipping these files? > >I don't know for you. >But the ability to have a local encodings.dir to override the default one >is useful to handle some wrong ttf fonts that wrongly claim to be in cp1251 >i nther unicode table, while they are in fact in another completly different >encoding. > >On the other side, if you ship only fonts with correct unicode tables >there is no need for the encodings.dir
Right.. I wasn't suggesting disabling the source code that looks for encodings.dir files, but rather just not shipping any encodings.dir files. If a user were to place an encodings.dir file back in the dir, the I assume it would still work. If it isn't a necessity though, I'd rather not ship them by default unless it causes someone problems not having them. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
