On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:36:01PM +0900, Jiro SEKIBA wrote:
>
> At Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:17:32 +0100,
> Mirco Bakker wrote:
>
> > The programm (written in C) uses only the standard Xlib. The
> > writing is done using XmbDrawString() (AFAIK function of choice).
> > I also tried Xutf8DrawString (X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING is set) with the
> > same effect. After Googeling for hours I found a few outdated
> > reports that Xlib has a Bug handling UTF-8 Strings (or Fonts). Is
> > this still true or is my code crap?
>
> X UTF-8 supports is ok, but only a few fonts have all glyphs.
A few? Actually no fonts have all glyphs. :(
Part of this is just incompleteness, but part of it is the
insufficiency of 1-1 character/glyph mapping.
> Or you can use font sets instead of single iso10646-1 font.
> Try to specify legacy fonts separated by ',' comma.
> Like "a14,k14,*", ('*' is wild card).
Hm? What programs will use this?
Rich
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