Re: [Adonthell-devel] Non-Latin fonts

[joël vennin]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:52:09 +0100
Alexandre Courbot <address@hidden> wrote:

> >
> >
> >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.
> 
We need only translate current dialog in UTF-8 format nothing else ...

Jol



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