Re: A bug report: Pango cannnot handle some CJK character sets

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Ienup> To do so, it is quite necessary that we should have some additional
    Ienup> entries at the tables at the tables-big.i file and provide
    Ienup> additional conv_xxx() at the basic.c with the current
    Ienup> implementation.

    Ienup> By the way, the current conv_xxx() at Pango calls g_iconv_open()
    Ienup> that actually calls iconv_open(). So, unless you are proposing
    Ienup> additional feature/spec change at the iconv(), the Pango is already
    Ienup> doing the necessary UTF-8 to "font charset and encoding" code
    Ienup> conversions by using iconv().  If this isn't what did you mean by
    Ienup> your iconv argument/suggestion, please let me know.

Well, that is what I get for talking before looking :-)  So glib is already
doing this.  What remains to be done is add the mapping tables for these
currently unsupported encodings, yes?

Naturally, this is easy to do, but assuming one has a large number of
encodings to add, then the iconv executable begins to get very, very big.
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