Re: [Devel] charmap question

[Riccardo Cohen]

Thanks a lot. I'll manage to change the charset.

Scott Long wrote:
> 
> Riccardo,
> 
> Your are correct. realchar must be a character code into the current
> charmap of the face.
> 
> The default charmap is Unicode, if that charmap is available. It
> should be safe to assume that all fonts have a Unicode charmap. At
> least, that has been my experience.
> 
> I am assuming that your strings are in some Windows format such as
> "OEM charset." In this case there should be Windows functions to
> convert the strings to Unicode. I don't have enough experience on
> Windows to tell you what those functions are, so you'll have to find
> them yourself.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Scott
> 
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:09:01 +0100
>   Riccardo Cohen <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I resend my question because I did not receive any answer.
> >
> >It seems that in
> >       FT_Load_Char(face,realchar,FT_LOAD_DEFAULT)
> >the realchar should be coded in the current charmap of the face
> >(unicode, big5, latin1 etc)
> >
> >1) is that true ? (I suppose so because when putting windows codes it
> >displays wrong chars and putting unicode codes it displays
> >perfectly).
> >
> >2) Well if true, how can I convert my string which is in MSWindows
> >charset ?
> >
> >3) Finally, should I always check the charset present in the face ?
> >or could I assume that unicode is always present ?
> >
> >Thanks a lot
> >
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