On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:57:56AM +0200, Jehan wrote: >>> 4/ Is a mfont/xftmfont really needed? I really don't see why we set a >>> different font depending on the fact that it is multibyte or not... On >>> my tests, it does strange things (for instance, I have french >>> characters with accents on 2 columns instead of one because in utf-8, >>> it uses 2 bytes). As far as I understood, font do not really depend on >>> the encoding (or at least, not this way). But maybe there is something >>> I haven't seen myself. So let you explain me. :-) >> >> I don't know squat about multichar stuff. Good luck. >> > > About this... Is there someone here who knows? Someone knowledgeable > about fonts? From all what I read, I don't really understand why to > differenciate multibyte from monobyte fonts, and apparently sometimes > even mix them in the same displayed text!
I think it's because some fonts have good English characters, but no CJK characters for instance. So the user can use their preferred CJK font for the CJK chars, and a regular font for the English. And sometimes the CJK chars take up more space on the screen than one char, which is why care needs to be taken when you mix text. But as I said before, I don't know squat about multichar stuff... GI -- 'Football' -- That which all women marry without knowing.
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