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Re: font name not decoded in the output of describe-font


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: font name not decoded in the output of describe-font
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:52:58 +0900

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> I haven't found a specification that says so myself, but Aidan Kehoe
> says it's clear from the source of fontconfig that it's UTF-8.  I
> can't imagine why that would change in the future so it's probably
> safe to assume it (at least for user presentation purposes).

Anyway, since in practice everything uses utf-8, surely it's better to
assume that until a better solution is found, than returning raw
undecoded font names ?

-Miles

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