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On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:44:49PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> writes: > >On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:27:12AM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >> The UNICODE support cannot really be finished till those of us with > >> modules that can use it give it a try. > > > >What is the expected timeline for Tk831.000? > > Difficult to say for sure. I am about to start the merge of Tcl/Tk sources, > until I see how messy that gets it is hard to guess at the scope of the > problem. But I would like to have something by the conference. > Apart from the Tcl/Tk merge the main issue will be scheme to > convert from UNICODE/UTF8 to the encodings of the various fonts a platform > may have. I am not yet convinced that the scheme Tcl uses for this is "right" > but im-porting that is one option, another is making do with true > UNICODE encoded fonts for near term. Did you have any progress with anything of this? You also said that you might look in the way fonts are accessed on OS/2 (the change 800.12=> 800.14 broke it, since the old-named system-specific utility functions are not called anymore...) IlyaThread Previous | Thread Next