Re: display of utf-8 messages in exmh-2.8.0

> New versions of Tk are almost certainly using new XFT font handling
>instead of old-style XLFD fonts. Exmh itself doesn't or didn't have
>very good (or really any) handling of XFT fonts and Tk's handling of
>XFT font names is in general rather limited (you can't specify many
>XFT attributes).

I admit that X font handling I've always viewed as a nightmare, and the
newer XFT stuff didn't really help matters.  But the Tk documentation
said you could still use the older XLFD names for fonts.  You _can_, but
for reasons I can't really fathom if you specified a semicondensed
XLFD name you don't get it; you get some other font.

> Last year I sent a preliminary patch for handling XFT fonts to
>exmh-workers that works for me (and works nicely, in that my exmh
>now displays much more UTF-8 and foreign language spam than it ever
>did before). I can't remember if it's been integrated into the CVS
>version; if not, you can get a copy of it from eg gmane.org:

FWIW, I didn't find this patch necessary to get UTF-8 stuff; you just
need to make sure you end up getting an "iso10646" font.

--Ken