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@@ -1155,15 +1155,24 @@ public: that the normal one is first, followed by bold, italic, and bold italic. - The optional argument is a string to describe the set of fonts to + The only argument to this function is somehat obsolete since FLTK and most + underlying operating systems move to support Unicode. For completeness, + following is the original documentation and a few updates: + + On X11, the optional argument is a string to describe the set of fonts to add. Passing NULL will select only fonts that have the ISO8859-1 character set (and are thus usable by normal text). Passing "-*" will select all fonts with any encoding as long as they have normal X font names with dashes in them. Passing "*" will list every font that exists (on X this may produce some strange output). Other - values may be useful but are system dependent. With Windows NULL - selects fonts with ISO8859-1 encoding and non-NULL selects - all fonts. + values may be useful but are system dependent. + + With the Xft option on Linux, this parameter is ignored. + + With Windows, `NULL` selects fonts with ANSI_CHARSET encoding and non-NULL + selects all fonts. + + On macOS, this parameter is ignored. The return value is how many faces are in the table after this is done. */ |