Hiya,

On 7/12/12 4:31 AM, Sven Neumann wrote:
>> I'm trying to run dfbtest_font from DirectFB-1.4.11 with a string
>> using encoding format ISO8859-15 on Ubuntu 10.10 (UTF-8 by default), 
>> to do this I change dfbtest_font.c on line 186 to this :
> 
> The DirectFB DrawString API expects strings in UTF-8 encoding. If your
> text is in another encoding you need to convert it to UTF-8 before
> passing it to DirectFB. You can use iconv() for that.

You can actually add your own encoding, and then use IDirectFBFont::
FindEncoding() and IDirectFBFont::SetEncoding().

See interfaces/IDirectFBFont/idirectfbfont_ft2.c to find out how you can
add your own encoding support.

"Latin1" is already supported besides "UTF8".

Cheers,
Takanari Hayama, Ph.D. (t...@igel.co.jp)
IGEL Co.,Ltd.
http://www.igel.co.jp/
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