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

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:40 AM +0000 11/23/00, address@hidden wrote:
>  >If I try `0xE1' instead of `á' (the
> > Unicode value of this character), I get the right glyph.
>
> So do I; the charcode generated by 'á' under Linux is probably
> different from the Unicode value necessary to access the correct
> glyph using this .ttf file (which I imported from Windows).

        Correct.


> To avoid having to write a wrapper function

        No need for you write it - it's already there for you.  You
should already installed on your Linux box something called iconv,
which is a library that will handle all sorts of wonderful
conversions for you.


Leonard
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