On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:21 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I'm not sure if PCB supports UTF-8 text, but if not.. doing that would > > make a good start. > > It doesn't. It does support iso-latin-1 but the default font only has > ASCII characters in it. Someone would have to draw an eight-bit font. > > In theory, you could put in whatever eight-bit font you wanted, but > that would just be confusing ;-)
Indeed.. The rest of the world moved on, to UTF-8 (or other Unicode schemes) I don't want to see any 8 bit text-encoding support added to PCB, _other_ than allowing it to support arbitrary UTF-8 encoded unicode text strings. Right now, we can cheat and pretend we never supported non 7-bit ASCII characters. If we add any support for 8bit code-pages, we'll be stuck having to support those, _and_ UTF-8 in the future. Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
