>> Would it seem a good idea to merge the CJK patch for support of >> multibyte character sets with the main trunk sometime in the near >> future (such as for 1.3)?
SM> No. The CJK patch is not something we want to see merged with its SM> current status, and xforms-0.9999 is not something CJK users SM> feel comfortable. Looks like we'll have to wait for some GUII success with other toolkits, then. SM> Here, unicode based text drawing must be implemented and LyX must SM> take care of certain amount of locale stuffs. Then it looks like this is a feature one might like to see in 1.3, and for the meantime it's Emacs again. >> Moreover, merging it in would be a good step towards Unicode/Omega support. SM> Notice Omega, both in its core engine and PostScript driver does not SM> support Unicode fonts at all. It is their design decision not to SM> support any fonts which contains more than 256 glyphs. The problem is not really with Omega here. PostScript Type 1 fonts do not support encoding vectors of more than 256 glyphs by themselves. PK fonts support more than 256 glyphs by themselves, but hardly any driver does. In order to generate DVIs compatible with current previewers, the design decision is not bad. CID-keyed PostScript fonts do support more than 256 glyphs in an encoding vector. There are patches for dvips and dvipdfm to support this type of font. Unicode PostScript fonts are rare beasts anyway, however. Good OpenType font support would be a nice thing here. However, people are *using* fonts with more than 256 glyphs, normally by virtual fonts. There's an example page about using the Bitstream Cyberbit TrueType font with Omega at http://pws.prserv.net/Roger_Wright/ROGER.HTM. Installing Unicode fonts that way (by splitting them into subfonts and then unifying them under a virtual font) is not a convenient process; however, a user has to do it only once, and the entire font selection is done by Omega, so that the complexity is largely hidden from the user. Users just enter their text in Unicode, Shift-JIS, EUC, ISO-2022, whatever, and the fonts are selected automatically. Philipp mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________ A crash reduces / your expensive computer / to a simple stone
