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

[Rafael L. <rla...@us...>]

* Andrew Roach <aro...@ya...> [2004-05-19 14:06]:

> I gotta say, that is very cool trick (and works with IE too); but I think 
> that using the "#g" syntax is easier on the brain. I know which I would be 
> using ;-).

Agreed.  Unless you have an Unicode-supported editor (my Emacs-mule does it,
for instance), it is impractical to enter Unicode characters. 

Related to that, nothing prevents us of implementing the #(NNNN) escape
sequence proposed in this thread.  We can even implement this right now,
without the Unicode support.  However, I would prefer that the NNNN number
refers to the Unicode encoding, and not to the position of the glyphs in the
Harshey font.  This brings us to your point:

> Can you think of any other issues that might get in the way of adding 
> unicode support ? I think the biggest hurdle would be getting a 
> Hershey/unicode translation table.

Yes, this would be the only single hurdle in the implementation, but it is
absolutely necessary.

-- 
Rafael