Re: [gtk-i18n-list] Unicode PUA supporting issue in gtk+/pango

[Abel Cheung <abelcheung gmail com>]

On 12/31/05, Abel Cheung <abelcheung gmail com> wrote:
[........]
> This is the story for COMMERCIAL fonts, which are not used in any
> open platforms. About open source side, Arne's font has all HKSCS-2004
> glyphs ready, and is currently bundled in almost all Linux distributions

Sorry, I mean all the major players except Novell(SuSE).

Abel

> (as well as shipped by default in the future). The status for other Unices
> are unknown for now.
>
>
> > > Interesting. Could you tell me the framework to use the font
> > > in Taiwan?
> > Well, if the font comes with big5 cmap (platform 3, encoding 4), and you
> > use it, not the unicode one, to look up glyph index, then you can use it
> > in Taiwan.  But this is just in theory.  I don't know if there are HKSCS
> > fonts having such cmap nor if it really works :)
>
> Arphic fonts don't have big5 cmap (at least according to ftdump).
> Also search fonts from a few commercial vendors, still can't find
> any so far.
>
> Abel
>
>
> >
> > pango can not do this because it uses unicode cmap to look up glyph
> > index.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > olv
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