Re: UTF-8?

[a-higuti math sci hokudai ac jp (Akira Higuchi)]

In article <19990110170100.B31960@anguish.transas.com>
mss@transas.com writes:

>Let me rephrase my question, is there a more or less documented (or reliable)
>way for writing a function that would display the text in UTF-8?

It's possible, but troublesome. The most difficulty is that the fonts
included in X are not compatible to UCS4/Unicode and so you have to
write a conversion function (the conversion tables can be got from
ftp.unicode.org). Furthermore, the mapping from UCS4 to the codings
of these fonts, is not one-to-one ;-(

Thay say that gtk+ will support UCS4/UTF8 in the next development
cycle, anyway.

>BTW, what exactly is broken: the code that handles the text drawing or the
>locale itself?

The former, perhaps. I have not examined in detail.

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Akira Higuchi
Dept. of Mathematics, Hokkaido Univ.
Hokkaido, Japan
Email: a-higuti@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp