empty charset registry?

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an tri? l? d?ag de m? na Samhain, scr?obh stephen at xemacs.org: 

 > Aidan Kehoe writes:
 > 
 >  > I haven?t tried, but if you?ve access to the machine the X server?s
 >  > running on, what?s preventing you creating a directory under /tmp/,
 >  > adding a fonts.alias file to it with such a mapping, and adding that
 >  > directory to your font path with xset fp+ ?
 > 
 > It would work if you copied the fonts, too, I think.  

I just tried it on Cygwin, and you don?t even need to copy the fonts.

 > So? It's still a nasty hack that typical users of legacy systems are not
 > going to expect to need, and the need is going to be less than obvious. 
 > "*" should match "fixed" without any need for hacks.

Wrong; either there?s an abstraction-breaking hack in the XEmacs code, or
the particularly driven user with a particularly broken X server gets to
implement a hack. We have been saying for literally ten years to use XLFDs:

1.1          (steve    18-Dec-96): versions.  All X fonts can be referred to via XLFD-style names, so you
1.1          (steve    18-Dec-96): should use those forms.  See the man pages for @samp{X(1)},
1.1          (steve    18-Dec-96): @samp{xlsfonts(1)}, and @samp{xfontsel(1)}.
1.1          (steve    18-Dec-96): 

(from the CVS annotation of man/custom.texi) and I don?t think it
unreasonable to enforce that now.

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