On 31 Mar 05 at 06:30, "Keith" (Keith Packard) wrote: Keith> The 'right' solution is to convert the bdf font into a ttf font and Keith> transcode to Unicode. FreeType, fontconfig and Xft are quite happy Keith> to deal with that result. I'm curious about why ttf? It's a proprietary format with binary file structure. Wouldn't it in that case be easier to change the original bdf file so that the glyph definitions and the encoding field there would conform to iso10646-1 ? Having done that myself, I think this is way easier than doing ttf conversion, - do I miss something? -- Sincerely, Dmitry Karasik