Re: [Adonthell-devel] Non-Latin fonts

[Alexandre Courbot]

> In case it would return unicode strings somehow packed into a char*
> array, most of Adonthell would need no change. Only the window system
> that finally displays the text needs to understand unicode. The rest
> would just pass it through.
>  
I think that's what happens, at least with UTF-8 (the encoding we'll 
most likely use). American characters are coded the same way as ASCII 
(that is, 7 bits), while other characters have the most significant bit 
of the first byte set, indicating they take two bytes. Simple, 
efficient, and would only require changes to the window system.


Alex.

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