Re: ISO-8859-2 fonts

[Jacek Pliszka <Jacek Pliszka fuw edu pl>]

Hi!

Thank You for quick response.

As I understand (in plain words) there are the following problems:

1. making gnumeric displaying the font selected from the dialog

2. making gnumeric aware of encodings (not only 8859-2 but
   8859-5 and other as well)

3. making gnome-print aware of encodings so it would
   be able to generate unicode for given encoding

4. making gnumeric and gnome-print understanding each other
   with respect to encodings

Could it be added to the TODO lists?

Also what would be the best way to ensure that the developers
are aware of the problem?

Even only point 1) would be a good thing since at the moment
gnumeric exports correct ISO8859-2 codes to LaTeX2e/HTML
(I'm checking whether gnumeric->PDF->PostScript would not work
 with ogonkify)

I wish I could help but I'm simply not good enough.

Best Regards,

Jacek Pliszka


On 3 Nov 2000, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:

> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:06:13PM +0100, Jacek Pliszka wrote:
> > > The font then does appear in the font selection list.
> > >
> > > However picking the font from the list does not change
> > > anything. The font in the spreadsheet remains unchanged.
....
> I know that problem, but I cannot tell an easy solution:
>
> 1. The GnomeFont <-> xfont mapping in gnome-print really sucks - i.e.
> you cannot insert your own custom mappings, and it works reliably only
> for 20 standard PostScript font. But AFAIK Gnumeric uses its own font
> selection dialog - so I cannot tell at moment, whether that makes an
> difference.
>
> 2. Now, even if you manage to get iso-8859-2 X font to display for
> gnumeric, it does not print things correctly, as (again AFAIK) it does
> not know anything about encodings, and converts printable texts to unicode
> assuming iso-8859-1.
>
> 3. You cannot trivially use dumb iso-8859-1/iso-8859-2 converters for
> generated PostScript (without tweaking a bit with gnome-print) because
> we already migrated to glyph-based (i.e. charset > 256) text output
> in PostScript context.
>
> > I'll add it as a release-critical goal for the next release.
>
> IMHO that means migrating to UTF-8 strings internally. Alternately you can
> add gobal charset preference (either per system or per worksheet), that
> can be (relatively - add unicode dependency) easily transcoded to UTF-8.
>
> Lauris
>
>
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Pozdrawiam,

Jacek Pliszka 

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