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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: special server mechanism (deemed unnecessary)
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Date: 9 Dec 88 13:44:30 GMT
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No-one should ever do anything with the default font.  The only reason it
exists is to prevent there being a "No-font-selected" error.

In fact,  there is absolutely nothing that you CAN do with
the default font reliably.  You certainly cannot display any characters
with it,  since you cannot predict the encoding it uses.

I'm willing to bet that your code assumes that the encoding for the
default font is ISO Latin-1.

Note that not even my Hello World program,  which was trying to be as
simple as possible,  tried to use the default font.

	David.