On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 18:44 +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 05:25:11PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > > It seems like the only reliable way to draw Unicode text with Xlib is > > to use XDrawString16? > > The problem with this is that you have to make sure you are using an > iso10646-1 font. Yet another problem is that those fonts seldom contain > all the characters in the range. That's why we have fontsets. But then > again, depending on whether you are using Xmb or Xutf8 routines (Xutf8 > IIRC, as Ion is using Xmb now), if there's an iso10646-1 font in the > fontset, it may block the other fonts that would contain the character/ > code point/whatever from being used as the font selection code doesn't > check if the font actually contains a particular character.
How does xterm do it, then? -- Pelle
