[iyonix-support] Unicode and printing was Netsurf...

On Wed 27 Sep, John-Mark Bell wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Gary Locock wrote:
> 
> > Please stick to the point. If Castle don't have control over Unicode support
> > in !Printers and the Font Manager in RO5, then who does?
> >
> > Not that I understand /why/ this issue exists.  But I do understand that it
> > means that one of the few reasonably competent browsers is crippled in an
> > important regard on Iyonixes.
> 
> I missed the start of this thread, for reasons explained elsewhere (thanks 
> to JB for his quick fix to that). As for the issue at hand, I've explained 
> it in great detail a number of times on the NetSurf mailing list. Here are 
> 2 of the posts, the second containing more detail than the first.
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.netsurf.devel/3946/
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.netsurf.devel/3232/
> 
> Anyway, Castle should already be aware of the issue(s) in this area; I've 
> contacted them about it at least twice (if not more times) over the last 
> 3 years.

Thanks John for the clear explanation, this raises for me the questions:
Is there any app that can print using Unicode?
What other apps use Unicode? Oregano2?


> I see there's also some confusion over the roles that !Unicode and the 
> Iconv module play in all of this. The short answer is that they have 
> nothing to do with it (and both work perfectly well on all versions of 
> RISC OS since 3.5).

Chris Evans

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