Hi, I forward this to the ml because I think this is useful to anyone and guess you were expecting to answer to the whole, ml. I hope this is OK Jimmy?!
Jehan -------- Message original -------- Sujet: Re: [Materm-devel] Fonts and all these stuffs Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:25:55 -0700 De: Terminator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pour :: Jehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Références: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Jehan, Traditionally, many fonts cannot render CJK characters properly. They only work for ASCII and ISO8859-[1-16] characters. Thus, we need special CJK fonts. And since there are multiple encodings for CJK, multiple fonts are needed for each encoding. Plus, usually a CJK character is wider than an English character - as twice wide as the latter. So we need to deal with this issue. AFAIK, the latest X fonts already contain all the characters including CJK, and can render them properly when you use UTF-8. So the difference between mfont and font is unnecessary any more. Hope this answer your questions. BTW, nice work on the UTF-8 stuff. :) Best, Jimmy On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Hi all, >> 4/ Is a mfont/xftmfont really needed? I really don't see why we set a >> different font depending on the fact that it is multibyte or not... On >> my tests, it does strange things (for instance, I have french >> characters with accents on 2 columns instead of one because in utf-8, >> it uses 2 bytes). As far as I understood, font do not really depend on >> the encoding (or at least, not this way). But maybe there is something >> I haven't seen myself. So let you explain me. :-) > > I don't know squat about multichar stuff. Good luck. > About this... Is there someone here who knows? Someone knowledgeable about fonts? From all what I read, I don't really understand why to differenciate multibyte from monobyte fonts, and apparently sometimes even mix them in the same displayed text! What I understood about font, there is absolutely no difference. There are just fonts with support of more characters than others. And most especially, I guess a font which knows many multibyte characters (japanese, chinese, arab, russian, or whatever alphabet in the world you like!) also knows the classical monobyte fonts (which are simply ascii and the ISO 8859-1 extension...). Or is there some fonts which have special characters but not the basic ASCII ones? Anyway if someone on this list can help, I would be grateful. Or If you can maybe point me to someone who can, I would be grateful too. My point here is that I want to simplify the font configuration, but first I need to be sure it has really no use at all (as I think), or that someone tells me that it is indeed needed for some special cases maybe? Thanks. Jehan P.S.: the UTF-8 (and any encoding!) support is well advancing. I have still issues in the exposure event, and bigger characters (asian for instance) are still badly displayed because I don't manage fully the variable size, but it is on the way. And you can already write any characters and have them display! :-) (providing you use a font which can display the character! ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ <http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/> _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
