Re: [I18n]ISO 2022 support for XFree86 XTerm

[Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Around 15 o'clock on May 15, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> XTerm will remain Unicode-only internally, if that's what you mean.
> The question is whether the ISO 2022 interpreter should be part of
> XTerm, or in a separate process.

Yes, that's what I meant.  You frightened me a bit with visions of 2022 
parsing in the middle of the existing VT100 emulator.  Is it UTF-8 or some 
UCS varient?

> Perhaps not on topic, but a side effect of this latest work is that
> fontenc has been adapted for use as a standalone library (nthe new
> version hasn't been submitted to XFree86 yet).

That's excellent.  I can build a simple glue library between that and Xft
to provide legacy encoding transformations to a pure Unicode Xft library.
Now I just need to manage truetype fonts with broken (or non-existant)
Unicode tables.  The existing Xft APIs will be officially specified as 
Unicode only; the 'encoding' field in an Xft name will only specify the 
desired subset of Unicode to match.

keithp@xxxxxxxxxx	 XFree86 Core Team		SuSE, Inc.


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