On Friday 27 February 2004 15:08, Christopher Marshall wrote: > I am having trouble understanding designations like 8859-6 and 10646-6. ISO 8859-6 is the ISO standard for encoding arabic using one byte per character. ISO-10646-6 does not exist, there are variants suffixes ISO-10646-1 that handle specific topics, but the last number is just a sequence not related to anything else. iso10646-1 in XFree86 fonts says the glyphs are identified using unicode code points I don't know what the '1' signifies, but it is definitely not the ISO-8859-1 subset. Maybe the format requires a number in that spot, so it became '1'. Such a font can contain much more if not all unicode characters though I don't think such a font exists. Arabic could have fonts encoded with iso8859-6 or iso10646 and possibly some other encoding. -- robin ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.