Polly Powledge wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm a developer working on double-byte-enabling a java app. I'd like to
> support user-defined characters (known in Japan as "Gaiji"). I took a look
> at
> http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/guide/intl/unicode_font.doc.html
> and read the section on mapping user-defined characters to Unicode.
>
> My problem is that I can't figure out how you get the glyph(s) into the
> user's fonts to use on Linux. With Windows, there's a utility that takes a
> user-supplied bitmap and makes it part of the system fonts, which you can
> then access through the JVM. But I haven't yet found an equivalent tool in
> the Linux world. It seems like I have to tell my users to create truetype
> fonts on a Windows system, and then install them on their Linux systems:
> ick. Or (more to the point of this mailing list) is there some helpful java
> mechanism that I'm overlooking?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Polly Powledge
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