[Fontconfig] fontconfig 2.2.3 only works with iso8859-1

Haakon Riiser haakon.riiser at fys.uio.no
Fri Feb 25 20:13:01 EST 2005


> I have a collection of old bitmap fonts (BDF format) that I'd like
> to use with fontconfig.  The problem is that the fonts' glyphs
> are replaced with some other system font when CHARSET_REGISTRY
> and CHARSET_ENCODING is not equal to "ISO8859" and "1".

Here's what happens when I view the font with gnome-font-viewer:

  ISO8859-1:
  http://folk.uio.no/hakonrk/tmp/bdf-iso8859-1.png

  Any other encoding (ISO8859-2 was used in this example):
  http://folk.uio.no/hakonrk/tmp/bdf-iso8859-2.png

-- 
 Haakon



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