[haiku-development] Re: Let's finish r1a3
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:02:15 +0200
On 2011-06-11 at 22:48:39 [+0200], Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
wrote:
> Adrien Destugues wrote:
> > > Are either of these being worked on? It seems that 6194 could be
> > > partially addressed (at least short term) by using the a font that
> > > displays the Korean, Chinese and Japanese selections in
> > > ReadOnlyBootPromt correctly, even if that font was only used to
> > > display those selections...
> >
> > Unfortunately, in Unicode some glyphs for Chinese and Japanese use the
> > same
> > codepoints, but each language wants them to be rendered differently. This
> > means we have to use a different font for each language.
>
> Really? I thought Unicode was all about mapping codepoints uniquely to
> characters (not glyphs, BTW).
That's where the problem lies. For the same character, Chinese and Japanese
people expect a different representation (or glyph). So the font needs to be
different in order to do the right thing, because the character alone isn't
enough information in that case.
--
Adrien.
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