Re: metapost plugin

[Chris Sperandio <sperandi eng usf edu>]

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 03:59, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le mar, sep 11, 2001, à 02:33:50 -0400, Chris Sperandio a écrit:
> > I've hacked together a metapost output plugin.  I'm too dumb to figure
> > out how to use cvs to build the patch. 
> >
> > It's incomplete, unfortunately, but it does a lot.
>
> Looks mostly good (I haven't actually compiled it). One issue and two
> questions:
>       * you need to add your copyright and a summary of your changes to
> the first comment block, in order to comply with the GPL.

Which changes?  Those made to the original pstricks plug-in?
 
>       * What happens if I run a diagram through your plug-in, and the text
> strings are using ISO-8859-1 diacritics ? If the text does not use the Latin
> alphabet at all (think Greek, Russian, Japanese, etc.), and thus is not even
> 8859-1 ? 
>       * What happens if I pass an UTF-8 encoded string to ->draw_string() ?
> (I should not do that for the moment -- this interface is local charset for
> the time being. Basically, this question boils down to: do you do anything
> resembling 
>       for (char *p = str; *p; p++) do_something(*p);
>  ?)

Sorry, these are a little out of field.  I write embedded DSP code for a
living and really don't know much about locales/charsets, but I'll take
a look.


> The issue is a blocker, but is trivial to fix. The questions are just to
> assess the amount of work needed to make that module happy when we flip the
> UNICODE_WORK_IN_PROGRESS switch.
>
>       -- Cyrille

Thanks.
Chris