Re: Some comments on Xr on Xc
[email protected] Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:46:19 -0500 (EST)
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On 23 Nov, Vadim Plessky wrote: > | The plan is to support only the UTF8 encoding. So, can we drop all of > | the 8/16/32/Utf8 distinctions from Xft? > > What about UTF-16? > I think it's required to display, say, Chinese glyphs. That is a misunderstanding of UTF. UTF-8 has no problems with either the glyphs in the BMP or with the additional glyphs in the extended pages. There are many compatibility related reasons to stick exclusively with UTF-8. R Horn