BFont docs: Update SetEncoding() with some new info

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 	- \c B_ISO_8859_10 aka Latin 6 aka "Nordic".
 	- \c B_MACINTOSH_ROMAN
 	UTF-8 is the standard encoding used by classes in the Interface Kit. It
 	is part of the Unicode® standard and allows Haiku to represent characters
 	from all over the world while maintaining backwards compatibility with
 	7-bit ASCII codes.
 	Each of the encodings extend the ASCII codes and differ from each other
 	only when the highest bit is set to 1, in other words, the value is
 	greater than 127. Furthermore each of the encodings except for UTF-8
 	are represented by a single byte and consequently encompass a limited set
 	of characters. Most of the encodings are in the ISO/IEC 8859 family of
 	character codes with the notable exception of Macintosh Roman which is
 	the standard encoding used by the classic Mac OS®.
 	If the value of the first byte of a UTF-8 character is greater than 127
 	it indicates that the character is a multibyte character and therefore you
 	must look at the next byte (and possibly the third byte, or rarely even
 	forth byte) to get the whole character.
 	Setting the character encoding on a view determines how BView::DrawString()
 	interprets the values passed to it and also how BView::KeyDown() interprets
 	the values representing the keys that the user presses.
 	\param encoding The character encoding to set the font to.
 */