On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:42:40 +0500 Nikita Zlobin <nick877...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Nikita, > One more reason to propose utf. I have read this to better understand > Xft: https://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper > > It mentions, that Xft requires unicode. Not sure, what unicode type is > meant, but at least Xft manual hs Utf(x) suffixed functions, though no > with Ucs(x). exactly, UTF-8 should be everywhere. There are other complexities in program and it's a myth to me why people are still trying to keep the encoding space heterogenous. I know there are legacy applications and file formats, but that shouldn't be our worry. With best regards Laslo