There are two unicode functions, UNICODE16 and UNICODE32 implemented in paragraph.c. Since I've made a lot of changes to paragraph.c (fixing sub/superscript code, and speeding up rendering a lot), I thought it woould be nice to check if they still work. Alex
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, JPluck wrote: > > I need a document, ideally a .pdb, that I can test Plucker's unicode > > handling on. Does anyone have such a document? Alex > > This is news to me. Since when does the Viewer support Unicode? > > The Plucker spec says that text data records contain a stream of ISO > Latin-1 characters. This is only partially correct, because Palms with > Western European languages (English/French/German/etc.) use PalmLatin > encoding, which is a derivative of Windows-1252. AFAIK, no Palm actually > supports strict ISO-8859-1 (Latin1). Note that ISO-8859-1 contains > control characters in positions #129-#159(which are essentially useless > on a PDA) whereas PalmLatin contains symbols such as the Euro sign in > this section. > > Anyway, I tried writing out text using UTF-8 and UTF-16 and the > documents all came out wrong in the Viewer. Actually I don't understand > how the Viewer handles different character encodings(if it does at all). > It displays different 8-bit encodings (Big-5, ISO-8859-2, KOI8-R) fine, > as long as the font set on the Palm matches the character set. But > variable-length encodings like UTF-8 or 16-bit encodings such as UTF-16 > do not seem to be supported. > > (I would take a look at the source code if I could, but the CVS and the > entire plkr.org site seem to be down at the moment.) > > > Regards > -Laurens > > _______________________________________________ > plucker-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev > -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85 Washington, DC 20057 || U.S.A. || ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Philosophiam discimus non ut tantum sciamus, sed ut boni efficiamur." - Paul of Worczyn (1424) _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
