Re: Redisplay with server-side X11 and Unicode internally.

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> [Posting this here in case I forget]
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> Perhaps this was obvious to everyone else, but it occurs to me that=20
> once we
> have an internal encoding based on the UCS, we can leverage Ben=92s=20
> work with
> the existing Unicode coding systems, which convert between Unicode=20
> and the
> Mule coding, for redisplay with server-side X11 fonts. Simply convert=20
> to the
> Mule encoding before using the existing redisplay code, much as the=20
> Xft

and BeOS :p

> and Windows code presently converts to Unicode before redisplay.=20

Go for it :D

It would speed up the unicode-based guis since they wouldn't have to do=20
the conversion.

This will also solve problems of the internal encoding not being able=20
to encode all of Unicode, and getting odd things instead of the wanted=20
char, as in

http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/beos/
shot_xemacs_native_utf8_roxor_mshey.png


Fran=E7ois.