XFree86 comes with extensive documentation in the form of manual
pages and typeset documents. Before installing fonts, you really
should read the mkfontdir(1) manual page; other manual pages of
showfont(1). In addition, you may want to read the X Logical
Font Description document, by Jim Flowers, which is provided in
the file ` The comp.fonts FAQ, which is unfortunately no longer
being maintained, contains a wealth of information about digital
fonts. xfsft home page has been superseded by this document, and
is now obsolete; you may however still find some of the
information it contains useful. Joerg Pommnitz' xfsft page is
the canonical source for the ` The documentation of X-TrueType
is available from the X-TrueType home page. A number of East-
Asian CIDFonts are available from O'Reilly's FTP site. The
Unicode consortium site may be of interest. But you are more
likely to find what you need on Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 and Unicode
FAQ. The IANA RFC documents, available from a number of sites
throughout the world, o