Re: How to change font encoding?

Chris Carlen wrote:

> I got it.  I'll try installing it in 2 days, and see what I can do with 
> it.  But my wife is rather attached to Tahoma font.  Many of the Thai 
> fonts are hard to read on screen.  Tahoma looks very good.

FreeType is supposed to be able to use multiple encoding fonts as 
UniCode, but that is about all I know about it.
>
<SNIP>
> I think you mean "switch the keyboard" right?  What we did in KDE 2.2 
> was to have the Thai keyboard available, but KDE in English.  When we 
> switch to the Thai keyboard, Thai characters come out.  US keyboard 
> types English.  But KDE is all English.  But by setting the encoding of 
> the general KDE font to iso8859-11, then Konqueror will show Thai file 
> names mixed in with English ones.

I must admit that I do not understand how that worked unless it was as I 
said above -- using the font with multiple encodings as UniCode.  If it 
was doing that, then you shouldn't have had to select the encoding.

But, as I understand it now, when you use Tahoma and the Thai keyboard 
layout that instead of Tahi, you get Roman characters.  If you have the 
Tahi i18n package installed, it shouldn't do that.  That qualifys as a 
BUG.  As I understand it, it was now supposed to do that automatically, 
that you don't need to select the encoding, selecting the keyboard 
should do it just like it does with Spanish or German.

So, I will wait and see if the relevant developer turns up.  If not, I 
suggest that you report it as a bug.

I'm sorry that I didn't understand that switching the keyboard layout 
was how you had changed it.  As I said, I know that that works for 
Spanish and German.  So, it should work the same for any language that 
has 256 characters or less.  What is different about 3.x is that you 
don't/shouldn't need to set the character encoding for it to work since 
with Qt 3.x this is now automatic.

--
JRT



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