Re: 2-bytes character display ready ?

[Fred Kiefer]

Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

>   I asked this question several months ago,
>   and when I check the xgps source code recently,
>   I found in XGFont.m, two "FIXME" say it might be able to support 2-bytes
> character.
>   I would like to know is GNUstep ready for 2-bytes character display ?
>   If it can be done by only modifing the xgps backend,
>   I would like to try it out with my limited ability.
>   As least it is easy for me to test the 2-bytes display.


Sorry, we still don't provide the full Unicode text information from the 
front end to the back end. Actually the GNUstep developers at the FOSDEM 
have just been discussing this last weekend. And somehow I once again 
failed to make my point. So for the next time, we have to live with the 
PostScript interface between these two modules, which only allows for 
ASCII sized characters.
Just to repeat this: The problem is more in the interface of the back 
end than in the backed itself.

The good news here is that we agreed at FOSDEM to allow for a special 
method for NSBezierPath to be handed over to the back end more 
efficiently. So as the others made already one compromise in the pure PS 
interface, they will (after some more lobbying) surely allow for more.

Cheers
Fred