On 18 Apr 2009, at 13:37, Duncan Gibson wrote: > > 3. Should we consider splitting the UTF-8 stuff out into its own > library as there don't appear to be many fast light UTF-8 ones > out there? Or bear it in mind as something for the future.
Although, these days, it is increasingly common for the host platforms to provide some UTF8 support that we could leverage to our own ends... XFT has stuff we can use, for example, that covers a lot of this same ground. But of course, there is no common API across platforms we can depend on. When I was doing the bit 'n pieces I did, I wondered about trying to make the XFT build simply wrap the extant XFT functionality... but it seemed to me (at that time) that might make the behaviour inconsistent across platforms, something we'd want to avoid. Now, I think maybe it would have been a useful thing to do - these days most *nix system do have access to the XFT_* and FC_* libs and they would address some of our problems... But that's a dependency, and may not work well for winXX or OSX hosts anyway - both of which have their own particular libs to address the same issues. -- Ian _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
