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[Groff] Re: experimental multibyte support
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
[Groff] Re: experimental multibyte support |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:02:49 +0200 (CEST) |
> I'm developing multibyte support based on Japanese patch now.
Very good! Hopefully, you can assist during the transition to
Unicode.
> - \[u<code>] support, where code is unicode.
> So, you can write \[u3042] for `HIRAGANA LETTER A'
Uh, oh, please be careful. \[...] are glyph entities, not input
character codes. Please read the article
Re: [Groff] Some thoughts on glyphs
from Aug. 26th in the mailing list archive how I will support Unicode
on the glyph side.
> - some changes in font/* files
> + DESC has fontset directive
> + font file can have code range after charset
> + font/devps/<font> can have encodingname.
> (for example,see font/devps/M.proto, it make it possible to
> produce right Japanese postscript even if ja_JP.UTF-8 locale)
What about kinsoku shori and shibuaki? This shouldn't be hardcoded.
We need some requests for it -- the font files are the wrong place
since both features are font independent.
Werner