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Re: [Devel] Re: patch: check bdf properties WEIGHT_NAME and SLANT case i
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Devel] Re: patch: check bdf properties WEIGHT_NAME and SLANT case insensitively |
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Thu, 04 Sep 2003 22:15:18 +0200 (CEST) |
> > Note that it just supports both iso10646 and iso8859 charsets, is
> > it reasonable to support the legacy charsets such as Big5 and
> > GB2312 etc?
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> You'd have to fix applications to transcode from Unicode to these
> legacy encodings; the tables in both of these cases are huge.
I don't mean that. If a BDF font contains e.g. a Big5 encoded font,
the BDF driver shall set FreeType's encoding to FT_ENCODING_BIG5, etc.
No need to transcode at all (which is beyond FreeType of course).
Werner