On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 22:22 +0100, Haakon Riiser wrote: > > Misencoding input text in order to match a misencoded (or > > misinterpreted) font is one of the ultimate evils of the font > > and text handling world. > > I don't see it as a problem, but OK. Here's another idea: how > about making it possible to define aliases for font encodings in > fonts.conf? Then I could tell fontconfig that IBM cp437 is another > name for ISO8859-1; there would be no side effect for people who > don't specifically ask for it, and everyone is happy. :-) cp-437 and iso-8859-1 are *not* the same. If you don't care, munge your font, just don't give it to anybody else. Regards, Owen
