Re: encoding of font-name with unicode branch new font-backend

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

>> but I'm not sure which layer has the knowledge that the string is
>> actually utf-8...

Theory: it is always UTF-8.

Practice: it will always be UTF-8 for fonts in the TrueType/OpenType
format.  For fonts in weird formats, all bets are off.

I suggest you treat it as UTF-8, but you should be robust if it turns
out not to be well-formed UTF-8.

                                        Juliusz