Re: fonts and symbolic links

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Ah, I see now.  One more question: the above commands seem to ignore all 
> > of the "microsoft-cp12*" encodings except "microsoft-cp1252".  I found 
> > that I needed to add an explicit "-a microsoft-cp1251" flag if I wanted 
> > the "microsoft-cp1251" encoding to be included.  Why is that, and where is 
> > the default list of encodings coming from?

It is hardcoded into mkfontscale. 

    { "iso8859-1", "iso8859-2", "iso8859-3", "iso8859-4", "iso8859-5",
      "iso8859-6", "iso8859-6.8", "iso8859-6.8x", "iso8859-6.16",
      "iso8859-7", "iso8859-8", "iso8859-9", "iso8859-10",
      "iso8859-11", "iso8859-12", "iso8859-13", "iso8859-14",
      "iso8859-15", "iso8859-16",
      "ansi-1251", "koi8-r", "koi8-u", "koi8-ru", "koi8-e", "koi8-uni",
      "tis620-2",
      "sun.unicode.india-0", "suneu-greek",
      "adobe-standard", "adobe-symbol",
      "ibm-cp437", "ibm-cp850", "ibm-cp852", "ibm-cp866", "microsoft-cp1252",
      /* But not "adobe-dingbats", as it uses generic glyph names. */
      "cns11643-1", "cns11643-2", "cns11643-3",
      "jisx0201.1976-0", "jisx0208.1983-0", "jisx0208.1990-0",
      "jisx0212.1990-0", "big5-0", "big5.eten-0", "big5hkscs-0",
      "gb2312.1980-0", "gb18030.2000-0", "gb18030.2000-1",
      "ksc5601.1987-0", "ksc5601.1992-3"};

I think of adding a wrapper which reads directories and encodings from
configfiles (+some builtins) and does the fontdir update for us.

bye
	ago
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