Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:16:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Does the existing perl5.8.* Unicode support have a way to efficently >> determine which script(s) or block (in unicode sense) a code point belongs >> to? > > use Unicode::UCD qw(charscript charblock); > print charscript(0x0388); > print charblock (0x30a0);
Great. > >> It seems to make sense to have a hash which maps script names to >> probable (font) encodings >> >> (Hiragana | Katakana | Han) => 'jisx0208.1990-0' >> (Greek) => 'iso8859-7', > >I dunno about script->font mappings... That is Tk's (i.e. my) problem. XFree86 has the font encodings bundled so I think I can pre-analysze them. > >> So give a (1 character) string how do I get Unicode script/block it is in?
