Re: Full unicode support for back-xlib

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote:
>
> > Fred Kiefer wrote:
> >
> >  >
> >  > As you by now will have noticed, the xlib backend comes along with 
> > its
> >  > own XFT font class and I think that the font set support should be
> >  > packaged up in a similar way. That is, a separate class in its own
> >  > file that gets set as the default font class in [XGContext
> >  > initializeBackend]. This allows even for a different way to list all
> >  > the available font sets, if this is needed. And we don't need to
> >  > fiddle with XGFont, ending up with a cleaner and smaller 
> > implementation.
> >
> > Good idea.  Then I need to define a new subclass of GSFontInfo and use
> > it in [XGContext initializeBackend], right?
>
> Exactly, this is very easy to do. Even some of the methods available 
> for XGFont and GSXFTFontInfo are not needed, you will only need about 
> ten methods or so.
>
> Fred
Done.  The 'dealloc' problem disappeared (Sorry to have annoyed you). 
Text display
becomes even faster. Other problems I recognized all have gone...  You 
genius!
I'll send the revised patch to bug-gnustep shortly.

- Kazu