Re: [Plplot-devel] How do you specify special symbols and Greek letters with TrueType fonts?

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2004-05-18 22:05+1000 Andrew Roach wrote:

> I agree with Rafael, and believe unicode is the way to go long term  - it's
> only an accident of 1980s 8 bit architecture we are stuck with ASCII's 256
> characters. Translating between the Hershey fonts, unicode, then finding
> freetype compatible fonts with the symbols would be the interesting part of
> the exercise.

I also agree unicode is a worthwhile goal, and I hope you have time to look
into it.  If moving to unicode can be done in the short-term, then fixing
the #(NNNN) approach becomes moot.  But if unicode is going to be a
long-term fix, then I hope you also look into the #(NNNN) approach to see if
there is a simple fix to make it work with non-Hershey fonts.  The
short-term problem is there is currently no way to use more than the first
256 characters in any font file, and I don't want that to turn into a
long-term problem.

BTW, your recent cvs fix to change the 156 character limit to 256 works
great. Thanks very much!

But I also hope we can soon go through the 256 character limit as well.

Alan
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