Re: 2-bytes character display ready ?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 10:37 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
> >   I asked this question several months ago,
> >   and when I check the xgps source code recently,
> >   I found in XGFont.m, two "FIXME" say it might be able to support 
> > 2-bytes
> > character.
> >   I would like to know is GNUstep ready for 2-bytes character display ?
> >   If it can be done by only modifing the xgps backend,
> >   I would like to try it out with my limited ability.
> >   As least it is easy for me to test the 2-bytes display.
>
>
> Sorry, we still don't provide the full Unicode text information from 
> the front end to the back end. Actually the GNUstep developers at the 
> FOSDEM have just been discussing this last weekend. And somehow I once 
> again failed to make my point. So for the next time, we have to live 
> with the PostScript interface between these two modules, which only 
> allows for ASCII sized characters.
> Just to repeat this: The problem is more in the interface of the back 
> end than in the backed itself.

I guess you failed to make your point because we misunderstood you.
Perhaps you misunderstand the interface?
I disagree that there is a (functional) problem with the interface, but
there is obviously a problem of understanding just how it is supposed to 
work.

Getting a copy of the 'PostScript reference manual' (red book) would be a
good idea.

I'll try to go into some detail in my next reply to Yen-Ju