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Re: fonts and symbolic links
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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