Re: [ft] Artwiz font: creating new encoding problems.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Some of you know Artwiz fonts.  These are small, non-scalable fonts
> looking like a "machine" print.  The sources can be found here :
> http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/.  I like them a lot, but
> they had no polish special characters, so I've downloaded sources
> and I've created a polish .bdf files with all characters needed.
> The package mainatiner cannot help me a lot, so I need to do it for
> myself.  I have two main problems and I want to solve them both.
> 
> 1. bdfs corrupted/fc-cache bug?

Please contact Keith Packard for more help; this issue isn't related
to FreeType, I think.

> 2. Few encodings wih one font - how?
> 
> Maintainer of Artwiz fonts created 3 different variants for each
> font.  For example - anorexia (english), anorexia.se (swedish) and
> anorexia.de (german).  Now I've created fourth - anorexia.pl
> (polish).  My variant has all of special characters of these three
> merged.  So why do use 4 different fonts as (I can think of) I can
> have one font with all characters, for all encodings.  I want font
> to display swedish characters (e.g. Bjork - I want o umlaut
> displayed) even if I'm not a Swede.  So I need one font, but good
> for all, not 4 branches!  How can I make it with .bdf/.pcf font?
> Can you tell me, or post a tutorial to make it (I didn't find
> anything).

There is a simple solution: Encode your BDF files as Unicode (ISO
10646)!  Xft then can map the fonts automatically to code sets like
latin-1 or latin-2.


    Werner