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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: ISO8859/1 fonts
Message-ID: <3854@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 22:05:30 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Almost all of the X11R4 fonts that are labeled iso8859/1 aren't - they only
>have 127 chars.

Oh, really?  Almost all the X11R4 fonts that are labeled ISO 8859/1 - as
defined by "all those fonts whose '.bdf' files have the string ISO8859
in them" are in the ".../mit/fonts/bdf/75dpi" and
".../mit/fonts/bdf/100dpi" directories.  I checked out the first few in
"75dpi", and they all had a full complement of characters; I then
checked all of them to see if they had an entry for the character with
encoding 170 ("ordmasculine", or "little tiny 'o' with an underline
under it), and they all did.  (No way am I going to run "xfd" on all 395
or so fonts that have ISO8859 in their ".bdf" files.)

Most of the ones *in the ".../mit/fonts/bdf/misc" directory* that have
ISO8859 in their ".bdf" file don't have a character with the encoding
170 in them, but only 47 of them have ISO8859 in them, so "most of the
X11R4 fonts that are labeled iso8859/1" are in the "75dpi" and "100dpi"
directories, and *are* ISO 8859/1 fonts (or, at least, have an encoding
for the character in question; I doubt they are missing encoding for
other characters, though).

And yes, there are fixed-width fonts amongst the ones in "75dpi" and
"100dpi"; in "75dpi", 38 out of 192 are fixed-width (at least as defined
by "the font name has '-M-' in it"), and in "100dpi", 38 out of 193 are
fixed-width.