Re: [Devel] Working with Shift-JIS encoded characters?

[山内 英敏]

Hello,

From: "Frank Faubert" <address@hidden>
Subject: [Devel] Working with Shift-JIS encoded characters?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:33:12 -0400

> However, it is unclear to me what I need to pass to FT_Get_Char_Index to
> get the correct glyph id.  The string (in hex) that I am trying to
> render is:
> 
> 8D C5 8F 89 82 C9 89 7B 97 97 82 B3 82 EA 82 BD 83 79 81 5B 83 57

8DC5 8F89 82C9 897B 9797 82B3 82EA 82BD 8379 815B 8357

The result is the following Japanese sentence.

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> Is there any documentation on what I need to do to these characters in
> order to properly call FT_Get_Char_Index?

I do not know any english documents on the web.  But the encoding rule
is faily simple.

* ASCII or JIS Roman
byte range              0x20 - 0x7f
* Half width katakana
byte range              0xa1 - 0xdf
* JISX0208
first byte range        0x80 - 0x9f, 0xe0 - 0xef

---- YAMANO-UCHI, Hidetoshi