[haiku] Re: Unicode in Haiku

  • From: "Travis D. Reed" <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:37:39 -0500

Well, this was a long time ago. I made a keymap for Shavian. It was pretty
nifty.

Just noticed that the Charmap doesn't wrap anymore. Great work, ladies and
gentlemen.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2009-07-26 at 18:06:55 [+0200], Travis D. Reed <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > No, that's not it. If you look at characters outside this plane in
> > character map, you'll see that after 65535, the characters just repeat.
> >
> > I don't think it's a problem with character map. A long time ago, I could
> > display Shavian characters in Haiku, which couldn't be done in BeOS. Now
> > this is no longer the case.
>
> That's actually very improbable :-). The glyph cache has always been 16 bit
> wide only, which is a heritage from using AGG sample code. I don't remember
> well, maybe there was a period of time where Haiku's app_server would
> already work but would not yet use the AGG based glyph cache, but the one
> DarkWyrm wrote.
>
> Anyways, Ingo and I have worked on this problem, and r31780 should
> hopefully fix it. The planes certainly don't wrap around anymore. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>


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--Travis D. Reed

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