Re: [Rlib-devel] RLIB-1.3.2 questions, problems and an ODBC fix

[Zoltan B. <zb...@du...>]

Bob Doan =C3=ADrta:
> Hym... Back when I was trying the port RLIB to windows I recall libtool
> not wanting to make a DLL.
>=20
> Dunno if you are having these problems.
>=20
> Did you try to manually create the dll w/ gcc?
>=20
> I also tried to manually make a dll and I don't think I could ever get
> it to work.  I didn't have symbol problems, but I think it kept making =
a
> static library.  I assume because of your work in windows you have more
> experience w/ this

I am looking at how Xine does all this.  Xine has a working Win32 port
and it uses dlopen very heavily, too, to open all of its plugins.

> FYI, I'm working on UTF8 for you.  But I have a question.  Do you know
> of any way to put UTF8 in PDF documents?  I kinda think its not going t=
o
> work.  We can only go as far as Adobe's fonts support things.  RPDF
> could be made utf8 friendly but it might be pointless unless it can be
> done inside a PDF document.

I don't know the PDF internals enough to answer that.
I think for my purpose it would be enough to accept the strings
in UTF-8 and output them in ISO-8859-2. That would require only iconv.

Best regards,
Zolt=C3=A1n B=C3=B6sz=C3=B6rm=C3=A9nyi