Re: [gtk-list] Re: how to encode for 256 color pixmap?

[Sven LUTHER <luther dpt-info u-strasbg fr>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 02:01:28PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:30:26 +0800, shigang wrote:
> >      I have a pixmap file which have 256 grey colors. Because of using ASCII
> > code, each pixel is 
> > 
> > descibed by two characters. This make xpm file as twice larger as raw data
> > file.
> > 
> >      Can someone tell me how to encode xpm file so each byte can instead a
> > pixel?   
> 
> It can't be done: ASCII is a 7 bit character set, 256 colors needs 8 bits,
> so you need two bytes to encode it.

what about using some kind of 8bit ASCII encoding, like latin1 for example ?

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER