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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why was this feature removed?
From:       Lars Knoll <lars () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2002-11-27 9:11:56
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> On Monday November 25, 2002 07:48, Chris Carlen wrote:
> > In KDE 2.2.x there was a selection box/dropdown that would let one set
> > the encoding to be used for a font, so we would set that to tis620-0,
> > the Thai standard encoding, otherwise known as iso8859-11.
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39185
>
> Please submit supporting information to this bug report, which asks asks
> for this very problem to be fixed.

The report has some valid points, but the wrong solutions in mind. Character 
encodings as tis-620 or 8859-1 should die in the user interface where not 
needed (ie for everything else than reading and writing data streams). What 
we're really talking about is scripts. Eg. specifying a default font for the 
Japanese script or the Thai script. The user should not have to care about 
the fact that the font is encoded in tis-620 or iso10646-1. 

Most non geek users have no idea about these things anyway. You can see this 
looking the reports wondering why a filename shows up as question marks when 
they typed in a thai name. It's the problem that the file system uses locale 
encoding. But this is a different problem and has to be solved on a 
filesystem and file encoding level where the move should finally go to using 
utf8 for all of this.

Back to the font problem: People _do_ however know about the difference 
between Thai and Latin as scripts, and would like to be able to select a set 
of default/fallback fonts for a certain script.

This is a problem of Qt and it's known to us. We are currently trying to find 
a fix for these issues. Unfortunately X11s broken font system makes it not 
exactly easy to do so, especially on old commercial Xservers.

Cheers,
Lars

 
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