Re: Codepage?

[Antoine Leca]

Rob Kramer wrote:
> 
> Can someone tell me if it's possible to see what codepage a font should
> use?

No.
There is nothing like a codepage that is needed to access data in a font.

Or more precisely, you need to use codepage 1200, which is another name
for Unicode native format, for the "normal" fonts. For fonts that tries
to mimic a given codepage while being in fact a "normal" (alias
Win 3.1 ANSI) font, which I consider being a bad idea BTW, there is no
way to "know" what for a codepage is used, you need to guess (sometimes
names gives educated guesses: for example, if the font name ends with
CE or Cyr or Greek, 1250 resp. 1251 resp. 1253 is probable; if it ends
in TSCII it is in the Tamil codepage named TSCII; etc.)

To be complete, there is a obscure hack in some Windows 3.1 fonts.
I (or Adam) can explain it more fully if that is really what you need
to know, but it is IMHO so horrible that I would not give you false
paths.


> Right now I have to get the user to specify the codepage if he wants it
> to be anything other than zero, but users usually don't understand much
> about codepages..

And Freetype does not understand much either!

Can you explain what gives you the feeling that codepage should be used
at all with Freetype? I fail to see the connection.


Antoine