Juliusz Chroboczek writes: > TK> How about making a single, multiplatform and program independant > TK> library, that can deliver those functionnailities to our programs? > > It exists and is standardised. See iconv(3). > > Unfortunately, iconv is not equally supported on all platforms; which > is why a multi-platform project such as XFree86 needs to roll its own.
Juliusz, you know that GNU libiconv is portable to any system that runs X applications. Btw, libiconv 1.8 has recently been released. The real reason why iconv is not suitable for X is that iconv's purpose is to convert text, thus it supports text encodings (sometimes called CES). But X needs to support font encodings, such as Adobe-Symbol, JISX0208 and the like. Bruno _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
