Re: fonts and mostCompatibleEncodig

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 12:04 PM, Sir Raorn wrote:

> Here it is. I don't khow how, but i got koi8-1 enc-reg pair
> for font -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-p-*-koi8-r.
> Maybe something wrong with my fontserver? But talked to other
> russian people using GNUstep I've fugured that thay have the
> same problem. Here is the patch ("dirty hack" is better name
> I think) for [+GSFontInfo encodingForRegistry: encoding:].

I'm not sure about the 'hack' ... it doesn't look right to
map different encodings provided by X onto a single encoding.
I suspect that some other changes are really needed for this
Perhaps additional characterset support in the base library?

> Also there is a patch from Alexander Malmberg about
> transmute() in GSString.m.

Can you tell me what this patch is supposed to achieve? As far
as I can see, it simply makes the code a bit less efficient
without providing any benfit, but presumably it is intended to
fix some problem.  I'd like to know what that problem is.