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mdbFontEncoding

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NAME

mdbFontEncoding - Font Encoding

DESCRIPTION

The m17n library loads information about the encoding of each font form the m17n database by the tags <font, encoding>. The data is loaded as a plist of this format.

FONT-ENCODING ::= PER-FONT *

PER-FONT ::= ’(’ FONT-SPEC ENCODING [ REPERTORY ] ’)’

FONT-SPEC ::=
’(’ [ FOUNDRY FAMILY
[ WEIGHT [ STYLE [ STRETCH [ ADSTYLE ]]]]]
REGISTRY ’)’

ENCODING ::= SYMBOL

FONT-SPEC is to specify properties of a font. FOUNDRY to REGISTRY are symbols corresponding to #Mfoundry to #Mregistry property of a font. See m17nFont for the meaning of each property.

For instance, this FONT-SPEC :

(nil alice0 lao iso8859-1)

should be applied to all fonts whose family name is ’alice0 lao’, and registry is ’iso8859-1’.

ENCODING is a symbol representing a charset. A font matching FONT-SPEC supports all characters of the charset, and a character code is mapped to the corresponding glyph code of the font by this charset.

REPERTORY is a symbol representing a charset or ’nil’. Omitting it is the same as specifying ENCODING as REPERTORY . If it is not ’nil’, the charset specifies the repertory of the font, i.e, which character it supports. Otherwise, whether a specific character is supported by the font or not is asked to each font driver.

For so called Unicode fonts (registry is ’iso10646-1’), it is recommended to specify ’nil’ as REPERTORY because such fonts usually supports only a subset of Unicode characters.

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Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.