FontSet Used with X Applications

The en_US.UTF-8 locale in the Solaris 8 environment supports fonts for the following character sets.

• ISO 8859-1

• ISO 8859-2

• ISO 8859-4

• ISO 8859-5

• ISO 8859-7

• ISO 8859-9

• ISO 8859-15

• BIG5

• GB 2312-1980

• JIS X0201.1976

• JIS X0208.1983

• KS C 5601.1992 Annex 3

• ISO 8859-6 and Unicode based one

• ISO 8859-8

• TIS 620.2533 based one

Because the Solaris 8 environment supports the CDE desktop environment, each character set has a guaranteed sets of fonts.

The following is a list of the Latin-1 fonts that are supported in the Solaris 8 product:

• -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-xxs sans utf-10-100-72-72-p-59-iso8859-1
• -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-xs sans utf-12-120-72-72-p-71-iso8859-1
• -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s sans utf-14-140-72-72-p-82-iso8859-1
• -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-m sans utf-17-170-72-72-p-97-iso8859-1
• -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-l sans utf-18-180-72-72-p-106-iso8859-1
• -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-xl sans utf-20-200-72-72-p-114-iso8859-1
• -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-xxl sans utf-24-240-72-72-p-137-iso8859-1

For information on CDE common font aliases, including -dt-interface user-* and -dt-application-* aliases, see Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide.

In the en_US.UTF-8 locale, utf is also supported as a common font alias. A font set for an application should have a collection of fonts that contains each of the character sets, as in the following example:

fs = XCreateFontSet(display,
"-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-4,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-5,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-6,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-7,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-8,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-9,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-big5-1,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0201.1976-0,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1992-3,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-gb2312.1980-0,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-tis620.2533-0,
  -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*utf*-*-*-*-*-*-*-unicode-fontspecific",
  &missing_ptr, &missing_count, &def_string);
	

Or, put more simply:

fs = XCreateFontSet(display,
				"-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-*s*utf*",
				 &missing_ptr, &missing_count, &def_string);