Re: Serious bug in gdk_draw_text() ?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru> writes:

> On 4 Sep 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
> > 
> >  -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> > 
> > The original pattern is completely nonsensical - it says,
> > I want -adobe-helvetica- in some random character set encoding.
> > XFree86-4.1 has been made to prefer iso8859-1 in such cases,
> > but XFree86-3.3.6
> 
>  No, if app called gtk_set_locale (i.e. XSetLocale indirectly) XLib will pick
> the font with encoding matching your locale's encoding then. Otherwise of
> course XLib will assume "C" locale and will prefer font with iso8859-1
> encoding. So declaring *-* as registry-encoding is a common practice for
> XDefaults files and any other files that allow to select XLFDs of something
> (and this allows not to write XDefaults for all locales one migh use - just a
> single file does the job for all locales).

Only if you loaded the font with gdk_load_fontset(). If you load a 
font with gdk_load_font() then the XLib internationalization machinery
is not involved at all.

Regards,
                                        Owen