[PATCH] empty charset registry?

[stephen at xemacs.org]

Aidan Kehoe writes:

 > The first X11 release with the current server-side font
 > architecture, X11R5, shipped with a long list of ISO-8859-1
 > fonts. So, I am inclined to add the following. Any comments?

If you can't find any font with "*", why would you expect a match with
"*-iso8859-1"?  This is quite unintuitive.

After integrating your patches, I get a crash in temacs in a tree
almost identical to CVS HEAD, in an Xft build on Mac OS X with the
X.org server and libraries, in face initialization.  Have you done an
Xft build with this stuff yet?

I dunno, Aidan.  It's not your fault that X goes belly-up whenever you
hand it something it doesn't expect, but it is a fact that it does.  I
don't really see any good reason to suppose that there aren't several
more crashes lurking, because you've completely changed the model.  Up
to now, we assumed that we could choose from the whole list of fonts.
Now we have to get the query right.  But querying X servers has always
been less than reliable.