From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Fonts] After-XTT's extension of the encoding field.
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:11:21 +0200

> This extension came from the After-XTT people from Japan.

  I thought of this extension from a argument with
Jamus Su.  It seems that there were some discussion on 
some mail lists of supporting non BMP glyphs.
  For example,

  http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2000-12/index.html
   Re: X font aliases and UTF-8 xterm, Ienup Sung
     Re: X font aliases and UTF-8 xterm, Robert Brady 
     Re: X font aliases and UTF-8 xterm, Roman Czyborra 

  But I like no proposals in them which cause confusion obviously.
Therefore I think that we actually cannot but extend Encoding Field.
The extension of X-TT 1.4 does not have any problems about compatibility,
so I implemented this extention to X-TT without many discussion.
Even if this extension is not accepted, there is no necessity of
deleting this extension.

  In Japan, there are the "GT fonts" which includes 66773 glyphs.
To use "GT fonts", I implemented this extention.  It is also one of
the reasons.  I use them like:

  gt200001.ttf -gt-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gt.2000-0.1
  gt200002.ttf -gt-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gt.2000-0.2
  gt200003.ttf -gt-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gt.2000-0.3
   :
   :

  The code range of "gt" is the same of that of "jisx0208".

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    Chisato Yamauchi
    After X-TT Project
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