Yesterday (1999-06-28) i wrote to David Faure, current mantainer
of kfm, asking about Unicode & kfm. Since i think his reply can
be of interest for this list, i'm posting it here. (By the way,
thank you for your answer, David)
" kfm support for charset (which is not part of only kfm but of all
" KDE apps, in libkdecode) is really poor.
"
" BUT : kfm is currently being rewritten as "konqueror", in the current
" development of KDE 2. As KDE 2 is based on QT 2, Unicode support is now
" _native_ in every KDE application. This should solve all the problems
" you are having with ISO10646. The charset code in libkdecode has even
" been removed, since Qt now takes care of this.
"
" For more on konqueror : http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/
" For more on QT 2 : http://www.troll.no/
" --
" David FAURE
" david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org
" http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html
" KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 03:05:44PM +0200, Ricardo Bermell-Benet wrote:
> Since i see your name in "kfm 1.167.2.11" credits as
> "Current Mantainer", i write to you in the hope you
> can solve my doubts about Unicode/ISO10646 and kfm.
>
> I'm in trouble about how to use Markus Kuhn's 6x13 fixed
> unicode font with kfm (using kfm as html browser).
>
> The only fixed fonts kfm allows me to use are "courier" and
> "lucidatypewriter". I can't configure it for use my installed
> 6x13 unicode font.
>
> Today I just wrote to unicode mailing list (unicode@unicode.org),
> asking for Netscape and kfm support for unicode. At this moment
> nobody has already answered about kfm, but i suspect the answer
> for kfm is the same as for Netscape, can you confirm this point?
>
> > Netscape cannot currently use a *-ISO10646-1 font directly. It builds
> > Unicode pseudo-fonts by merging available ISO 8859-* and JIS fonts
> > internally and ignores *-ISO10646-1 fonts in the process. This is of
> > course just a hack that provides access to only a tiny subset of the
> > characters found in a real Unicode font.
> >
> > Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
>
> ...
>
> Ricardo Bermell-Benet <rbermell@aimplas.es>
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