Re: [Devel] The problem of display fonts in multiple vertical levels

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I found that freetype is great enough to display many kinds of 
> characters,
> like thai, which may consist of multiple level per characters.
> Say, for using unicode, 0x0e23 + 0x0e47 will spend 1 space of character,
> instead of 2.
> 
> Can anybody give me hints of the implementation of this function?

Basically, this has nothing to do with FreeType.

You should look at the Unicode page of Markus Kuhn (a web search will
give you the URL); there you can find a link to a library which
provides the width information for a given Unicode character (directly
extracted from the Unicode database).


    Werner