> > Other wm which implements this feature such as icewm and other blackbox > clone/forks (waimea, fluxbox, etc.) might be good refereces for you, i > guess, > although some of them can not handle multi-byte characters > (iconv() is needed to support this because XftDrawStringUtf8 and/or > other > functions which use unicode as its internal character encoding are > required to > draw multibyte characters such as Kanji, Chinese/Japanese ideograph). >
Part of the issue is indeed making sure we do right for the non-European charset crowd. The move to xft is not too difficult but it is also not horribly well documented yet. We basically have to read other people's code, mailing list archives, etc. Also, as I mentioned earlier this code will be specific to XFree 4.2 and higher. No 3.x people and no people using X from some other vendor. Which means we still have to support the old style font routines. Luckily we have done a good deal of work to wrap the X font routines but there is still some more work to be done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
