Re: Someone has re-implemented ucs2any.pl in C

2003-06-30 Thread Kean Johnston
I'd be more than happy to finish off the final touches, test it on all bdf fonts I've got available, and compare the output against ucs2any.pl if it would be useful to XFree86 project or anyone else. My C version can process all fonts in one pass and spit out multiple encodings all at once,

Re: Someone has re-implemented ucs2any.pl in C

2003-06-12 Thread Egbert Eich
Mike A. Harris writes: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Matthias Scheler wrote: In the interests of portability--their base system doesn't ship with perl--the NetBSD people have implemented ucs2any.pl in C. There's a version at http://backyard.homeunix.net:8080/~ben/ucs2any/ I was

Re: Someone has re-implemented ucs2any.pl in C

2003-06-12 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Egbert Eich wrote: Yes, there are plans to ship all bitmap fonts converted to ttf. This however requires bdf-ttf and ttf-bdf converters. I don't know the status of these converters. Even then we'd still need bitmap fonts in different encodings for systems that still require

Re: Someone has re-implemented ucs2any.pl in C

2003-06-12 Thread Matthias Scheler
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:00:46PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: I rewrote ucs2any in C about a year and a half ago, but I didn't finish doing the testing I planned to compare it between the perl version and my C version. Mine is entirely in ANSI C, and I had planned on submitting it to

Re: Someone has re-implemented ucs2any.pl in C

2003-06-12 Thread Matthias Scheler
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:44:28PM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote: The ucs2any.c mentioned in this thread is now pure ANSI C, too, and passes a full XFree86 build. Once I've done something on the generated files I'll commit it to the NetBSD sources for general exposure. The ucs2any utility is

Someone has re-implemented ucs2any.pl in C

2003-06-11 Thread Aidan Kehoe
Hi, In the interests of portability--their base system doesn't ship with perl--the NetBSD people have implemented ucs2any.pl in C. There's a version at http://backyard.homeunix.net:8080/~ben/ucs2any/ It's worth considering including this in the XFree86 tree, if the server-side re-encoding is a

Re: Someone has re-implemented ucs2any.pl in C

2003-06-11 Thread Matthias Scheler
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:54:41PM +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote: In the interests of portability--their base system doesn't ship with perl--the NetBSD people have implemented ucs2any.pl in C. There's a version at http://backyard.homeunix.net:8080/~ben/ucs2any/ I was the one who initiated