Re: [Freetype] [newbie/faq?] how can I display accented characters?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> But I am still wondering whether there are any .ttf files which
> already contain a charmap that will work correctly under Linux (when
> using non-ASCII characters); or does everybody who needs access to
> non-ASCII characters under Linux import Windows font files and then
> uses iconv to do the charcode translation?

Usually, latin1 is used on UNIX boxes.  If the charmap is (3,1),
Unicode will be selected, and you directly use latin1 since the range
0x00-0xFF is almost equivalent to U+0000 to U+00FF.


    Werner