Re: XFree86 4.0 is available

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote on 2000-03-10 15:15 UTC:
> Can anyone tell us what UTF-8 features are included? Does 4.0's xterm
> know about wide characters, for example? Are all of Markus's font in
> there?

All my very latest -misc-fixed-* fonts (ISO10646-1 truncated to below
U+3200, plus a few selected 8-bit derivatives) are in there, plus Mark's
ClearlyU font plus the new (Latin only) scalable B&H Luxidux fonts, plus
reencoding mechanisms for all scalable font backends (TrueType, Type1,
Speedo). With the TrueType renderer, you can also install all Microsoft
Type1 fonts and use them as iso10464-1 fonts now.

Robert's wide/combining patch did *not* yet make it in unfortunately.
Perhaps also a good thing, as there are still unresolved bugs (e.g., cut
from the last line). Ironing out the last problems here should be a
primary goal for XFree86 4.1.

I have also not yet included the recoded old Adobe and B&H fonts,
because the BDF recoder is not ready yet.

Mark has patched xfontsel to display iso10646-1 font correctly (before
that, xfontsel assumed that all 16-bit fonts are JIS).

Bruno has included a few things towards Xlib locale support of UTF-8,
but I'll better leave it to him to describe the current status. Is it
already good enough to allow us to remove the Unicode keyboard mapping
from xterm again?

Bruno has also included clever mechanisms that make the handling of
large font datastructures as they are generated with iso10646-1 fonts
much more efficient in most situations.

Definitely worth installing!

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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