On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 22:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 23 Nov, Vadim Plessky wrote: > > | The plan is to support only the UTF8 encoding. So, can we drop all of > > | the 8/16/32/Utf8 distinctions from Xft? > > > > What about UTF-16? > > I think it's required to display, say, Chinese glyphs. > > That is a misunderstanding of UTF. UTF-8 has no problems with either > the glyphs in the BMP or with the additional glyphs in the extended > pages.
And UTF-16 doesn't has any problem with the glyphs in the extended planes. UTF-* is just the encoding. The problem is when you target the character set UCS-2 instead of UCS-4 (for instance, using UTF-16 without surrogates). UTF-8/16/32 can all access any unicode codepoint. Cheers, -- Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
