[haiku-development] Re: Let's finish r1a3
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:02:09 +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).
It definltely is, and I'm quite certain this problem doesn't exist (or
else we could discard our font overlays anyway).
Bye,
Axel.
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