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## 7. References

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 interest include `X`(1), `Xserver`(1), `xset`(1), `xlsfonts`(1) and `showfont`(1). In addition, you may want to read the X Logical Font Description document, by Jim Flowers, which is provided in the file ``xc/doc/xlfd.PS.Z`'.

The comp.fonts FAQ, which is unfortunately no longer being maintained, contains a wealth of information about digital fonts.

The xfsft home page has been superseded by this document, and is now obsolete; you may however still find some of the information it contains useful.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 ``ttmkfdir`' utility.

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, often provide interesting information about character set issues; my favourite is RFC 373.

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