(this is a repost - if you see the mail twice, please ignore it) Hello Week or two ago I obtained my palm (tungsten C), and so I started playing with it. Plucker is an excellent piece of software, but its lack of i18n abilities is a stopper for anyone willing to use it outside of ISO-8859-1 range (existing cyrillic fonts by are just an ugly hack, and the situation is comparable to that of linux in, say, 1997 - moreover, while this approach can be taken to create other national fonts for plucker, it does not solve the situation if you want to use plucker in more languages).
I looked quickly into grayscale font code in plucker, and got an impression that almost everything is there to make it work with at least UCS2 - basic char type is 16-bit, fonts can contain 16-bit glyphs, just to make some glue to make it all work. Even if current font format is terribly inefficient for sparse glyphs, but e.g. for latin1+latin2, or latin1+latin2+ipa or latin1+latin2+ipa+ greek or latin1+latin2+greek+ipa+cyrillic fonts it is perfectly suitable. What do you think about extending plucker to handle unicode better? (i.e. making it usable for ISO-8859-2 people, since for them plucker does not work at all)? I am willing to invest some time and effort into it, though I have no experience in PalmOS programming, but I am experienced in linux (mostly C and python) programming, also in i18n field. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
