This document describes the new handling of font encodings
introduced with xfsft-1.0.3. In many cases, installing fonts
with xfsft only requires creating an entry in the `fonts.scale'
file (either by hand or with the `ttfmkfdir' utility) with the
required encoding and running `mkfontdir'. In some cases,
however, when using incorrect homebrew fonts, this will lead to
wrong results. Typical symptoms are missing glyphs or glyphs at
unexpected positions. The `xfd' utility (distributed with X11)
can be used to examine X fonts. This document tries to give
enough information for users to fix such problems when they
occur. A character is an abstract description of a unit of a
writing system. Examples of characters include the Latin capital
letter A, the Arabic letter jim, and the dingbat black scissors
A glyph is a picture that might be included in a font, and can
be displayed by a window system or printed by a printer. While
glyphs roughly correspond to characters, this correspondence is
not, in general, one to one.