Re: [Q] JIT Unicode code point support, and UTF-8 in compound text

>>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; writes: >> If you're looking for suggestions :-), any hack to directly use >> Unicode in Xft frames would be desirable, I think. Aidan> What do you mean by this? You mean switching the internal Aidan> encoding to Unicode just for Xft frames? No, actually I meant just to have the option to display characters that have a Unicode code point but not one in standard ISO space. The FSF hack of randomly creating non-standard charsets is not one I favor. The internal encoding is going to be buffer-oriented; I don't think there's any way to only have it in certain frames. Aidan> Haven't touched it in months, in anticipation of Ben's Aidan> conflicting work in the same direction being Aidan> committed. That doesn't seem so be so imminent, so it may Aidan> be worth more attention. Talk to Ben directly. He'll tell you what he plans to do, more or less on what schedule. He doesn't take offense, nor can you pressure him to do things he doesn't want to do (whether because he thinks it's Wrong[tm] or because he doesn't want to expend the effort). But he only pays attention to the lists intermittently, so you can't count on getting response that way. Also, he did reivew a patch the other day; I don't know whether that means he's back in play, or if it was just sufficiently likely to annoy him that he decided to veto it. It's probably worth asking before you expend more effort.

Aidan> Thank you for trying the patch; No problem. I highly recommend git, it really takes the pain and uncertainty out of this kind of thing. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.