From: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer_at_Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 03:21:47 +0200

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:55:51PM -0600, Greg Haerr wrote:
> : clR6x8 indeed looks very nice (for a fixed-width font). But it
> is not latin-1. Thinking of the upcoming multi language support,
> shouldn't the system font be full iso 8859-1?
>
> The internet url for this font was for an older X11
> font directory. The latest X11 distribution from XFree86
> has most fonts filled out with complete 8859-1 versions;
> I suspect this font has been enhanced as well, I'll pull it
> down and check. (those with access to new and old
> RedHat distributions will notice a huge difference in the
> size of the .pcf.gz fonts in /usr/X11/lib/fonts - this is
> because of the full iso8859 and unicode support)

At least the latest X11 (and XFree) sources only have ISO646
encoded Schumacher Clean. I have checked this of course,
before I did the work adding 8859-1 to clR6x8.bdf. The result
is http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~bfischer/clR6x8.bdf

I don't know about linux distros and their local changes.

You have a pcf2bdf utility, haven't you?

Björn (Fischer)
Received on 2002-09-18