Around 13 o'clock on Jul 18, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> In other terms, the localized names are used to display in the lists shown
> to the user, when when one of those is choosen, what is returned is not the
> localized name but the ascii-only one. And inversly, when an ascii-only
> name is gotten, it should be possible to retrieve its associated localized
> name if needed.

Why do you believe the internal interface should only use ASCII names?  
The underlying infrastructure supports fonts with multiple names, it seems 
obvious to me that it will be easier to get application support if they 
need deal with only one name, and that name should be the localized name.

Note that *all* of these names are locale independent; applications can 
use any of the names to access the font, the only question is what name 
should be returned when the application requests it, the mapping from the 
set of names to a name appropriate for the user is the only locale
-dependent step.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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