Re: [Devel] charmap question

[Scott Long]

Riccardo,

Your are correct. realchar must be a character code into the current 
charmap of the face.

The default charmap is Unicode, if that charmap is available. It 
should be safe to assume that all fonts have a Unicode charmap. At 
least, that has been my experience.

I am assuming that your strings are in some Windows format such as 
"OEM charset." In this case there should be Windows functions to 
convert the strings to Unicode. I don't have enough experience on 
Windows to tell you what those functions are, so you'll have to find 
them yourself.

Hope this helps,
Scott

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:09:01 +0100
 Riccardo Cohen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I resend my question because I did not receive any answer.
>
> It seems that in 
> 	FT_Load_Char(face,realchar,FT_LOAD_DEFAULT)
> the realchar should be coded in the current charmap of the face 
> (unicode, big5, latin1 etc)
>
> 1) is that true ? (I suppose so because when putting windows codes it 
> displays wrong chars and putting unicode codes it displays 
> perfectly).
>
> 2) Well if true, how can I convert my string which is in MSWindows 
> charset ?
>
> 3) Finally, should I always check the charset present in the face ? 
> or could I assume that unicode is always present ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
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