Hello everybody...
Has anybody thought about implementing Unicode support into LyX?
I'm currently plan to support an extended set of math symbols and characters
into LyX (for myself or others if it is needed).
Here are my thoughts to be discussed:
I'm thinking of a re-implementation of the font engine to support more than
the standard font encodings and to support more languages and symbols. At the
moment I'm looking at the pango code if it can be used as the new font engine
for LyX. This will make the code depending on glib of course which is not
available for OS/2 at the moment, I think.
The LyX file format has to be changed to support more than the current
character set. This could be implemented by using a new command (e.g.
"\LyXUNICODE{code}").
The internal typedef LyXParagraph::value_type has to be changed to 16 bit
type (wchar_t) and the TeX- and SGML-exporters and -importers have to be
changed to support more characters.
Anyone satisfied with this ideas :-)
Stephen
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