TK> How about making a single, multiplatform and program independant
TK> library, that can deliver those functionnailities to our programs?
It exists and is standardised. See iconv(3).
Unfortunately, iconv is not equally supported on all platforms; which
is why a multi-platform project such as XFree86 needs to roll its own.
> Freetype,
Note that the code conversion library used by the FreeType backend in
XFree86 is fully application-neutral: it is used not only by the
FreeType backend, but also by the Type 1 and TrueType backends, as
well as by the luit and mkfontscale utilities.
> Xft
Last time I checked, Xft didn't do any character-code conversion; it's
a purely Unicode library. Clients that use Xft and need to use
encodings other than Unicode are free to use either iconv or fontenc.
Juliusz
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