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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: default font
Message-ID: <8812122109.AA00165@devnull.sun.com>
Date: 12 Dec 88 18:02:10 GMT
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Correction to my previous response:

> These are all bugs.  Anything that outputs characters using the default font
> is a bug.

I should have said:

Anything that outputs characters using the font it finds in a newly created GC
without checking that the attributes of the font are suitable is a bug.

Because:

-	there is no such thing as "the default font" (but its hard to stop
	using it :-)
-	if the attributes of the font you find in a newly created GC,
	including the encoding,  are suitable there is no harm in using
	that font.

At the same time,  the font naming mechanism in R3 is a much better solution
to these problems than trying to specify anything about the def (Oops!)
font you find in a newly created GC.

	David.