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

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