Hi,

strictly speaking, UTF8 would violate the X Logical Font Description 
definition, which states that the whole XLFD has to be in ISO8859-1 
graphic characters excluding '-', '?', '*', ',' and '"'. And how would 
you distinguish when to use UTF8 conversion and when ISO8859-1 ? You 
could try if a UTF8 string is valid, but i'm not sure if this would catch 
all cases.

Just my 2 cents

Philipp

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Am 13.11.01, 00:29:23, schrieb Edward "G.J." Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
zum Thema Re: [Render] RE: xft font substitution:


> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>   "-aliasarphic-�s�ө���-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0" \
>   "-Arphic-AR PL Mingti2L Big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0"
>   "-aliasarphic-���-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0" \
>   "-Arphic-AR PL KaitiM Big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0"

>   so that when the homepage need "�s�ө���" the browser will use
>   "AR PL Mingti2L Big5", and "���" will use "AR PL KaitiM Big5"
>   automatically?

>   As your explain, Xft can recognize UTF-8 font family names. Is it
>   possible that XLFD can use UTF-8 font family names too? I try
>   UTF-8 and big5 but in vain. The property of FAMILY_NAME is type
>   ATOM, seems can use ISO-8859-1 encoding only?
>   (I'm sorry, if I misunderstand something, I'm still new to X)

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