AW: [Devel] German umlauts with Freetype 2?

[Patrick Hoffmann]

I've just made another test. I wrote a small program that puts out all
characters between 32 and 255. In the output I can see that '~' is the
last character in the font, that isn't a square. I'm using the standard
true type fron "arial.ttf" from windows.

Any ideas?

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Von: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Im
Auftrag von Werner LEMBERG
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Dezember 2002 04:32
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Betreff: Re: [Devel] German umlauts with Freetype 2?



> But when I use german umlauts only a square is displayed instead of 
> the right letter. So I may be right if I think this means, that I'm 
> not using the correct character code. But which code should I use? Is 
> there a possibility to change this behaviour with FT_Set_Charmap and 
> FT_Encoding? Does somebody know a solution for this problem?

Normally, TrueType fonts contain a Unicode charmap, and for non-TrueType
fonts, FreeType synthesizes a Unicode charmap if possible.  In Unicode,
the character range 0x00-0xFF is equivalent to Latin-1 (plus control
code range); this means that you have to use e.g. 0xDF as the input
character code for `ß'.  If you use the latest CVS snapshot of Unicode,
a proper Unicode cmap should always be selected by default, but I
recommend to select it explicitly with FT_Set_Charmap.


    Werner

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