On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, David Starner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:04:36AM +0900, Gaspar Sinai wrote: > > Unicode Consortium are just plain wrong if they think that someone > > will throw away the national standard and replace it with nothing. > > National Standards do not need to prove that Unicode can be transformed > > to them, the local standard body has no responsibility to make the > > mapping. > > More and more code translates internally to Unicode. Both GTK and the > new X font system use only Unicode internally. Most Microsoft code is > Unicode internally, from what I here. People like the idea of dealing > with only one character set and are probably going to continue > converting to Unicode no matter what the Japanese think about it.
I am very sorry if I sounded a bit more harsh than I meant I would not make a Unicode Editor if I didn't like the idea. The idea of a common standard is great - but the implementation of it named Unicode suck^H^H^H^H far from being perfect. I would like to make Unicode better but there is not way to do it - I am an independent hobbyist with no influence. But being an independent developer also helps me ignore reasons like: *...'cause big softwrare vendors use it...* If I listened to such reasons in 1993 I would use Windows now and not Linux. That being said, I am progressing pretty well with the mapping and I may need just a little PUA - most of the glyphs will nbe mapped to whatever closest - it is a tedious manual work. I am planning yudit-2.6.beta1 in a week or two - it works pretty well on my desktop. For glyphs Unicode plane1 I could find only jisx0213.2000 encoded X11 fonts on the Net but they work pretty well with my mapping. Maybe in a seperate thread someone could tell us if there are plane1 X11 Unicode bitmap fonts available, and what the XLLFD encding part should be - I hardcoded printf (iso10646p2%d, plane) for now till I find a font. Cheers gaspar -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
