Duane Maxwell wrote:

We played with the X11 bitmap fonts but were unimpressed by the quality of the glyphs - they don't seem as polished. The outline fonts suffer from the problem that they don't look very good at small sizes. In our application, printing was considered rare, so precision matching with print was secondary to legibility on screen - which made fonts like Helvetica inferior to, say, Geneva.

My thought was that if people really wanted the other encoding one could select a defult font out of the X11 set which is ok. It would have been a reasonable trade-off. But Accu appearently gives us that option too.

The subpixelrendered outline fonts usually look _very_ good, even down to size 10. Regular antialliased ones look ok-ish, and several GUIs, like Aqua and Eazel/Nautilus (oops, they're gone) now use them widely, some even everywhere (Aqua).

I think general Squeak users have the same needs - and it also explains the emergence of new fonts like Arial and Verdana in newer browsers

Another problem is that there are several versions of the bitmaps for Times and Helvetica. Some look very different on screen.

As to the encoding issue, in my limited experience, Squeak doesn't use the extended characters very frequently, probably because the existing fonts are either incomplete or inconsistent. I suspect a change of encding wouldn't affect much.

Judging from the replies (none) the encoding doesn't seem like a hot issue any longer.

Henrik