Mike A. Harris writes: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Matthias Scheler wrote: > > >> In the interests of portability--their base system doesn't ship with > >> perl--the NetBSD people have implemented ucs2any.pl in C. There's a version > >> at > >> > >> http://backyard.homeunix.net:8080/~ben/ucs2any/ > > > >I was the one who initiated rewriting "ucs2any.pl" as C program and would > >like to ask that this program is not intergrated into the XFree86 sources > >at the moment. > > > >The version available under the URL above is far from being usable at the > >moment: > >- It's not portable (non-ANSI C compliant, asprintf(3), etc.) > >- It crashes when used as a replacement for "ucs2any.pl" in a full build. > > > >I'm in the process of sorting these issue out with the author and will > >submit the program via "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" once the problems are fixed. > > I rewrote ucs2any in C about a year and a half ago, but I didn't > finish doing the testing I planned to compare it between the perl > version and my C version. Mine is entirely in ANSI C, and I had > planned on submitting it to XFree86 for inclusion once I was sure > it was a 100% safe replacment. After mentioning this to a few > people, I was told not to bother because the fonts in 4.3.0 would > be re-encoded on the fly, or would be ttf bitmaps so ucs2any > wouldn't be needed anymore anyway, so I just dropped it and left > it in limbo since. > > I'd be more than happy to finish off the final touches, test it > on all bdf fonts I've got available, and compare the output > against ucs2any.pl if it would be useful to XFree86 project or > anyone else. My C version can process all fonts in one pass and > spit out multiple encodings all at once, instead of being invoked > hundreds of times. I wrote it like that as I figured it might > give an additional speedup not having to fork and exec from a > shell script constantly. >
Yes, there are plans to ship all bitmap fonts converted to ttf. This however requires bdf->ttf and ttf->bdf converters. I don't know the status of these converters. Even then we'd still need bitmap fonts in different encodings for systems that still require the old bitmap renderers for some reason. Therefore a ucs2any converter written in C will be useful in any case. If you want to invest the time to test the results of your converter against the perl version I'd think it would make sense to switch to it. Could you post the code of the converter to the bugzilla? Egbert. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
