RE: Traditional Chinese partially supported

[Yen-Ju Chen]

  Thanx a lot.
  Your suggestion is always a good one. :)
  I will try that later.
  Here is the new diff files which fix the encoding conversion problem in
previous one.
  I misunderstanded the NSGlyph system in previous codes
  Only NSStringDraw.m and XGGState.m are modified from previous codes.
  I hope they work for other language.
  The diff files are compared to the CVS on March 10th as previous one.
  With these codes, GNUstep can display and edit Chinese and English with
right position.
  (The text position is wrong in previous codes).
  But the editing is bytes-based, which means deleting one Chinese character
takes two delete keys,
  or you will only delete half of a Chinese character (1 byte) with one
delete key.

  Yen-Ju

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-gnustep-admin@gnu.org
> [mailto:discuss-gnustep-admin@gnu.org]On Behalf Of Fred Kiefer
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:45 PM
> To: Yen-Ju Chen
> Cc: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Traditional Chinese partially supported
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I like your efforts to support non-western fonts, but still they are
> wrong. What is wrong? Western languages are not all about ASCII, English
> is but not French, German or Norwegian.
> But you could get most of what you want, with even less changes! And
> also with out breaking any other language. I would prefere a different
> interface between the gui library and the back end, which will hopefully
> be accepted later on in the GNUstep community. Even with out that you
> could get your changes working. The basic idea is that drawing code will
> will always get the string encode to the font encoding. So if we
> specifiy UTF8 as the encoding for the XftFont, by setting
> mostCompatibleStringEncoding to NSUTF8StringEncoding in [XftFontInfo
> setupAttributes] and replacing the drawing methods as you did, we now
> only have to make sure that the String drawing code is sending over UTF8
> . This would work out, if we just replace the conversion function there.
>
>
> So we should take over your changes on GSFontInfo.m and check if the
> cutting off of the two first byte of a string should only happen if they
> are the Unicode sequence, but for the rest some rework is needed.
>
> Cheers Fred
>
>
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