Re: ISO-8859-2 fonts

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris helixcode com>]

> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:06:13PM +0100, Jacek Pliszka wrote:
> > The font then does appear in the font selection list.
> >
> > However picking the font from the list does not change
> > anything. The font in the spreadsheet remains unchanged.
>
> We're in the midst of a release freeze just now.  But if you can
> send me some detailed examples of
>     - Where to get the font you expect to see
>     - What you expect to see
>     - What you actually see

I know that problem, but I cannot tell an easy solution:

1. The GnomeFont <-> xfont mapping in gnome-print really sucks - i.e.
you cannot insert your own custom mappings, and it works reliably only
for 20 standard PostScript font. But AFAIK Gnumeric uses its own font
selection dialog - so I cannot tell at moment, whether that makes an
difference.

2. Now, even if you manage to get iso-8859-2 X font to display for
gnumeric, it does not print things correctly, as (again AFAIK) it does
not know anything about encodings, and converts printable texts to unicode
assuming iso-8859-1.

3. You cannot trivially use dumb iso-8859-1/iso-8859-2 converters for
generated PostScript (without tweaking a bit with gnome-print) because
we already migrated to glyph-based (i.e. charset > 256) text output
in PostScript context.

> I'll add it as a release-critical goal for the next release.

IMHO that means migrating to UTF-8 strings internally. Alternately you can
add gobal charset preference (either per system or per worksheet), that
can be (relatively - add unicode dependency) easily transcoded to UTF-8.

Lauris