Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >You might want to look at what we did for Pango - see >pango/modules/basic/tables-big.i in >ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/pango-1.2.5.tar.gz.
[There may come a time when I just give up Tcl/Tk and implement perl/Tk OO interface on top of gtk instead. But not yet...] > >There is a big map there that for each Unicode codepoint lists >possible encodings with a moderately clever encoding scheme to save >memory. Then based on the current language tag (either from >the program or from the current locale setting), there is an order >in which to try encodings. Sounds worth a look. > >We're dropping support for this code and for core X fonts >in the next release of Pango, In favour of what? (FreeType on client side?) >but if you find it useful, feel >free to borrow the techniques, tables, generation tools, >or table lookup code and use it under whatever license you >want. > >Regards, > Owen