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Re: [ft] German Letters with FT_Load_Char


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [ft] German Letters with FT_Load_Char
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:07:29 +0200 (CEST)

> I would recommend to avoid underspecified terminology such as
> "Unicode strings" or "Unicode character codes" in all documentation
> because they only specify the general principle of encoding text but
> don't tell the developer the exact storage format. I recommend to
> replace it with more specific terms such as "Unicode UTF-32 strings"
> or "Unicode UTF-32 character codes" when applicable.

FreeType has no concept for `strings'.  You enter a single Unicode
value, and it returns a glyph index.  However, I've slightly improved
the documentation of FT_Encoding (which defines possible cmap values).


    Werner




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