From kde-devel  Wed Aug 11 10:37:24 1999
From: Jo Dillon <emily () thelonious ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:37:24 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: unicode support in X11, QT and konsole
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Lars Doelle (lars.doelle@on-line.de) spake thusly:

> from 1) No type 1 unicode font can be made.

  Wrong - you just can't make a font with more than 256 glyphs.
You can certainly make unicode fonts that fit within iso8859-1,
for instance. In any case Qt translates from unicode to, say,
koi-8 or other encodings which will fit within 256 glyphs.
 
> from 3) No font with an encoding that is unsupported by
>               QT can be used (without workarounds).

  Isn't it possible to add codecs?

> 
> Comments, approvals, corrections, anyone?

  You've forgotten Truetype fonts (supported with xfsft and in
XFree 3.9). These, of course, are fully  unicode-capable.

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	Jo