> the problem is - the evas api is DEFINED to accept utf8 as all strings. all > strings are utf8 as far as it is concerned. it expects them in utf8 and will > return them in utf8. so if you have anything that is not utf8 and you want to > give it to evas - you must convert it to utf8 first, and vice-versa. utf8 is > able to cover all unicode code-point space as as such so it is sufficiently > good > to do everything. :)
fair enough, i guess this is why i should read the document > you need vertical do you? hmm - here in japan they are more than happy to do > left to right any time. i thought it was the same in china and korea. so i > have > ignored top to bottom. i do know fo right to left issues and frankly that is > my > biggest problem at the moment. that involves having to address not just > textblock, but evas's core text drawing routines as these ONLY draw left to > right. i basically have not addressed right to left as i speak none of these > langauges (arabic, hebrew etc.) and it is a bit more complex with arabic for > example using composed characters (1 char composed of multiple unicdoe glyphs > overlayed) and i actually don't know what it is MEANT to look like etc. > especially mixed right to left and left to right languages - eg quote english > within arabic sentences, or vice-versa. yeah, believe or not. most chinese now uses left-right layout, same for korean. but i wrote a small typesetter for windows, which makes acient chinese and mongolian script looks right. now i want to port it to linux. how stable is the textblock(2) api now? maybe i can do sth base on it. -- Regards, Tianran Chen ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
