Re: [ft] FT_New_Face

[Brian Weed]

Hartwig Wiesmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the file path parameter is a pointer to a constant char type. A lot of 
> OS are not using ASCII characters but Unicode to describe the file 
> name and its path. Is there any workaround to have also access to font 
> files that have non-ASCII characters in their file names?
>
> Hartwig
AFAIK, FT_New_Face eventually just calls fopen()...

On Win32 if you compile FreeType with _MBCS (a win32 define), then you 
can pass Multi-Byte-Character-Strings (which can be represented with a 
CHAR *).
On MacOS, I think the default is UTF-8 (which can also be represented by 
a CHAR *).

I store all strings as UTF-8 (regardless of platform), and convert to 
MBCS on Win32 as needed.

Brian