> Does it do Latin-1, or does it do raw octet streams and you get > whatever your font gives you with them
It does raw octet streams with glyph lookups. It doesn't "support" iso-latin-1 any more than it supports the cursor font, or zapf digbats, or any other 8-bit font. If you *happen* to give it an iso-latin-1 string and *happen* to give it an iso-latin-1 font, you *happen* to get iso-latin-1 support. > I'm not sure whether I think switching PCB's philosophy from octet > strings to character strings would be a good move. (I think it > would be difficult to do, but that's a separate issue.) I think it would make sense if we changed the way we managed fonts. With our current "built-in font" scheme it doesn't make sense to venture much past 7-bit support anyway. UTF-8 character strings at least can be held in octet strings, stored as such in otherwise-ascii files, etc. That's the benefit of using UTF-8 vs other multibyte encodings. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
