Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I nevertheless maintain that if the requested glyph /isn't/ available, > it is more useful to display some approximation of the requested > character than a little white box.
Agreed. > Mozilla already handles this kind of thing. So do gvim and > gnome-terminal, which suggests that it might be GTK in general that > handles it. It is even conceivable that the Unicode-handling library > might be separate from GTK itself; if that is the case, xterm may be > able to link to it? Pango (libpango1.0-0) is probably what you're thinking of; it has a potentially problematic dependency on glib. There's also libunicode0, which depends only on libc, but the only relevant-sounding function I see is unicode_canonical_decomposition, which may not quite suffice. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
