On Mon 3 Oct 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 03/10/2011 21:51, David Emerson wrote: > > I am using the freetype unit (with linux) and would like to display some > > interesting unicode characters. However when I pass a string containing say > > U+2265 to GetStringGray, it doesn't display the unicode character at all; > > it > > shows 3 other characters in its place. What to do? > > What freetype API function are you calling? Not sure if it applies to > freetype, but with Xft (as implemented and used in fpGUI), there are > various versions of the same API. You need to call the correct one based > on the encoding type of you text.
freetype.GetStringGray I've tried tweaking all kinds of things but the sad truth is that I am really pathetic at figuring out libraries when no documentation is given, and I sure can't find any documentation. I see that the fpgui helloworld program handles unicode nicely. I guess I'll try and imitate whatever's happening there. Thanks again, Graeme! ~D. > > procedure XftDrawStringUtf8(...); cdecl; external libXft; > procedure XftDrawString8(...); cdecl; external libXft; > procedure XftDrawString16(...); cdecl; external libXft; > > > Regards, > - Graeme - > > -- > fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal > http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
