"Maiorana, Jason" wrote on 2002-11-27 15:52 UTC: > font file formats, such as true type, > have a fixed ucs-2 internal encoding in the cmap, so they have > difficulty representing beyond-bmp characters. > > Does anybody here have a system where beyond-BMP glyphs work well > with? (Input Servers, font display, titlebars, etc)
Does the TrueType standard address this already? How about adding non-BMP characters as UTF-16 strings, just like ligatures? Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
