> Does it do Latin-1, or does it do raw octet streams and you get
> whatever your font gives you with them
It does raw octet streams with glyph lookups. It doesn't "support"
iso-latin-1 any more than it supports the cursor font, or zapf
digbats, or any other 8-bit font.
If you *happen* to give
>> - but pcb supports iso-latin-1 8-bit at the moment, aside from the
>> missing font issue.
> Its dangerous do document that we support iso-latin-1, lest anyone
> draws themselves fonts, and then gets cross if we decree in future,
> that PCB text is in UTF-8.
Does it do Latin-1, or does it do raw
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:51 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Our default font is 7-bit.
>
> I agree that UTF-8 will be the *only* expansion option we'll take when
> we get to that point - but pcb supports iso-latin-1 8-bit at the
> moment, aside from the missing font issue.
Its dangerous do document t
> Right now, we can cheat and pretend we never supported non 7-bit
> ASCII characters. If we add any support for 8bit code-pages, we'll
> be stuck having to support those, _and_ UTF-8 in the future.
Right now we support *uncoded* 8-bit characters and a 256 (er, 255 due
to NUL-terminated strings)
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:21 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > I'm not sure if PCB supports UTF-8 text, but if not.. doing that would
> > make a good start.
>
> It doesn't. It does support iso-latin-1 but the default font only has
> ASCII characters in it. Someone would have to draw an eight-bit font.
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