On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:50:06PM +0000, Duncan Simpson wrote:
> time I ran into them. UTF8 is probably the right thing for storing the text in
> a file IMHO but there are other choices.
I think we want the core to use UTF8 too. But we have to deal with
variable-length character encodings of course.
> My Xfree86 4.2.1 tree does not contain any fonts that do more than one alphabet
Red Hat ship with iso10646 fonts that can simultaneously display all
sorts of glyphs.
This already works in the Qt frontend (you can show Russian and Polish
equally well) if you have the right fonts installed.
> different fonts or a font_set. Methinks that UCS-4 internal format will require
> the the painter to have a UCS-4 to font and glyph mapping function.
In qt it is essentially as simple as codec->toUnicode(utf8-text)
regards
john
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