Re: [Freetype] Supporting Non-Unicode enc. in BDF driver of ft2

[David Turner]

Hi all,

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I've just found that, the bdf driver inside freetype is only support
>
>   unicode encoding. The the font is not encoded in Unicode, it will
>   use adobe standard encoding. Would anyone can tell me the reason of
>   Unicode encoding only in that piece of code??
>
> Noone has implemented support for other encodings.  Volunteers
> welcome.
I'm actually _against_ implemeting support for legacy BDF/X11
encodings within FreeType. This is our past, not our future, and
working on this would be a waste of time.

If you really need to deal with these, you'd better use
FT_Get_BDF_Charset_ID to determine the encoding, and handle
all character->glyph mappings yourself..

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)