Re: [Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

2016-10-22 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 02:12:34 +0100 Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: >[...] > It is my understanding (but I do not know for sure) that in some > languages (such as Arabic) certain letter combinations form a single > glyph (afaik/google see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamzah combined > with a let

Re: [Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

2016-10-22 Thread Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus
Am 2016-10-22 um 10:53 schrieb Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus: > Maybe you mean ligatures? Many languages have them, even German: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature I thought that ligatures are just a matter of the font but not the unicode representation? When I write a text which

Re: [Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

2016-10-22 Thread Juha Manninen via Lazarus
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: > Which ones does it not support? > When I added it to SynEdit it was complete. It had all the combinings that > the utf8 standard had back then. (at least that I could find in the > documentation) > > Of course if a new combining rang

Re: [Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

2016-10-22 Thread Juha Manninen via Lazarus
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote: > So ligatures should not influence string encoding in FPC. > Or am I missing something here? I guess it matters for a text layout software. It should not separate the two characters forming a ligature. I admit I don't know the

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-22 Thread José Mejuto via Lazarus
El 22/10/2016 a las 5:10, Lars via Lazarus escribió: As promised, links: https://github.com/zotero/translation-server/issues/24 Someone says that there is now something called a Firefox SDK or Gecko SDK instead of xulrunner... I wonder if it replaces it or is more complicated/difficult to use

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-22 Thread José Mejuto via Lazarus
El 22/10/2016 a las 5:10, Lars via Lazarus escribió: Isn't there a new xulrunner architecutre they created to replace it.. that's what I remember reading. I will find a link to the page and report back here soon if I find it. https://github.com/zotero/translation-server/issues/24 Someone says t

Re: [Lazarus] New methods code creation

2016-10-22 Thread Aradeonas via Lazarus
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Re: [Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

2016-10-22 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:13:04 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote: > Am 2016-10-22 um 10:53 schrieb Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus: > > Maybe you mean ligatures? Many languages have them, even German: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature > > I thought that ligatures are

Re: [Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

2016-10-22 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:25:30 +0300 Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: >[...] > I guess the biggest complexity is in glyphs and ligatures. I still > don't understand their details. There is nothing to understand. Some languages have irregular letters. Same as English has irregular verbs. You don't

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-10-22 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:13:32 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: >[...] > Take the Free Pascal CHM help as an example - it is horrific looking. > The fpdoc's HTML output writer was clearly designed for online HTML > usage with popup browser windows and decent CSS support etc. The CHM > con

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-10-22 22:36, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: > Is this a problem of the CHM producer or the CHM viewer? Both. The LaTeX-to-HTML conversion is definitely not great. Michael would agree on this one. Then taking that already bad HTML and converting in to CHM, makes the end result even wor