Codepages and charactersets

  Subject: Re: mails with charset iso-8859-2
  From: Eric Pop
  Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:14:42 -0700
  looking through my /usr/local/lib/exmh-2.2/app-defaults i find a bunch of
  things which seem relevant.  i've added
  exmh*mime_iso-8859-2_registry:      iso8859
  exmh*mime_iso-8859-2_encoding:      1
  exmh*mime_iso-8859-2_plain_families:  fixed
  exmh*mime_iso-8859-2_fixed_families:  fixed
  exmh*mime_iso-8859-2_proportional_families:  times verdana
  exmh*mime_iso-8859-2_title_families:   times verdana
  to my .Xdefaults file and your message looks better to me now.
  -eric

  Subject: Re: mails with charset iso-8859-2
  From: Brent Welch
  Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:30:07 -0700
  To: Eric Pop
  The settings above essentially map iso8859-2 into iso8859-1
  The "encoding" becomes that trailing -X in the font name.
  So, this'll work for the ascii half of the -2 encoding map,
  but do something odd with the hebrew half (I think that's it),
  mapping that into latin accented characters!
  There is a wonderful utf-8 font that would solve our problems,
  but I've just been reminded that Tk is not able to use it due
  to a bug.  If anyone is inspired to delve into the Tk font
  machinery to see why it refuses to open the iso646-1 fonts,
  please let me know.

Note said bug has been fixed, and Tcl/Tk 8.4 does a fine job with the iso646-1 (Unicode) fonts.

To specify a font for Unicode display, take a look at Changing the Unicode message display font.


Updated on 31 Oct 2003, 22:53 GMT
Search - Recent Changes - Reference - Index - Go to Beedub's Wiki - Help