×××× ××××× 11 ××××× 2004, 04:24, ×××× ×× ××× Gad:
I've managed to play around with the fonts and I discovered that the font I was using (Ann) probably doesn't have a UTF8 version, so it was displaying as gibberish.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC fonts do not have a "utf-8 version" or a "cp1255 version". they have entity groups or something other which corresponds to various languages code sets and its up to the rendering engine to convert from the current character set's character code to the correct entity location in the font file.
i.e - the character code for aleph in ISO-8859-8 is different from the one for ISO-10646, but I can still use the same font for both.
I really don't know. All I know is that some fonts appear to be supported under UTF-8 encoding and some don't.
For example, when you look at Debian packages like xfonts-100dpi, it says: "This package contains only fonts in the ISO 10646-1 and ISO 8859-1 encodings, to conserve disk space. For other encodings, see the xfonts-100dpi-transcoded package."
Maybe someone else can enlighten us :-)
Gad
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