Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-08 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Jul 8, Roger So wrote: A guy from the IT department of the HK Government was in the discussion, and he stated that the official plan is to provide support for the PUA entries as an interim measure, until the whole system is ready to migrate to use non-BMP entries: ...

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-08 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Edward Lee wrote: There are `two' Traditional Chinese fonts here. In zh-tw the radical/stroke of some glyphs are differrent with the TC glyphs in GB18030 fonts. Could you give Unicode code points of a few of those characters? Have you checked them out at your own

Re: [Fonts]Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-08 Thread Edward Lee
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002, Jungshik Shin wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Edward Lee wrote: There are `two' Traditional Chinese fonts here. In zh-tw the radical/stroke of some glyphs are differrent with the TC glyphs in GB18030 fonts. Could you give Unicode code points of a few of those

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-08 Thread Leon Ho
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Keith Packard wrote: http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/hkscs/download.html Thanks. I notice that the newest part of this table references quite a few symbols beyond the BMP; would you suggest that I use the older entries? Or should I use the non-BMP entries and

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-08 Thread Roger So
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:30, Keith Packard wrote: Let me rephrase the question in the context of this discussion -- in attempting to identify which languages a given font is suitable for, I believe I shouldn't expect fonts designed for HKSCS to support the non-BMP encodings, and so

Re: [Fonts]Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-08 Thread Roger So
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 19:18, Edward Lee wrote: The examples are U+89D2(Big5 0xa8a4), U+904E(Big5 0xb94c), U+9AA8(Big5 0xb0a9), U+5433(Big5 0xa764), ... Thanks; I wasn't aware of the difference. (Our font supplier didn't supply us with a true GB18030 font

[I18n]Experimental EIMIL/PCE enabled IIIM server

2002-07-08 Thread Hideki Hiura
I forgot to post this announcement to here ;-O). One of the goals is to replace the Xlib side Local IM and Compose file which is so limited in functionality and flexibility(such as all Cpmpose rule is static) --- Subject:

Re: [I18n]Using current locale in font selection

2002-07-08 Thread Owen Taylor
Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Much as I hate the C locale model, I'm wondering if I shouldn't use the current locale as a language hint where applications don't provide explicit language information when selecting fonts. This would make the generic aliases (like sans-serif)

Re: [Fonts]Re: [I18n]Using current locale in font selection

2002-07-08 Thread Erik van der Poel
Owen Taylor wrote: +locale = (FcChar8 *)setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL); +result = malloc (strlen (locale + 1)); Should be strlen(locale) + 1. Erik ___ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n

Re: [I18n]Using current locale in font selection

2002-07-08 Thread Owen Taylor
Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Around 14 o'clock on Jul 8, Owen Taylor wrote: +locale = (FcChar8 *)setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL); Don't you mean LC_MESSAGES? If so, I think we should be able to use this return value almost raw; stripping out the language and territory codes

Re: [I18n]Using current locale in font selection

2002-07-08 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Keith Packard wrote: Around 14 o'clock on Jul 8, Owen Taylor wrote: +locale = (FcChar8 *)setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL); Don't you mean LC_MESSAGES? I believe it should be LC_CTYPE. Some people like me have the following because English menu and (error) messages

Re: [Fonts]Re: [I18n]Using current locale in font selection

2002-07-08 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Jungshik Shin wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Keith Packard wrote: Around 14 o'clock on Jul 8, Owen Taylor wrote: +locale = (FcChar8 *)setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL); Don't you mean LC_MESSAGES? I believe it should be LC_CTYPE. Some people like me ...

Re: [Fonts]Re: [I18n]Using current locale in font selection

2002-07-08 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on Jul 8, Jungshik Shin wrote: Don't you mean LC_MESSAGES? I believe it should be LC_CTYPE. Some people like me Check. LC_CTYPE it is. Sometimes life in en_US is so insular... Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab