Re: [ft] Still some accents issues :)

[David Bevan]

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> I must be really really bad, but I still didn't manage to display a single
> latin-1 specific characters. I found an article
> (http://apia.u-strasbg.fr/vrml/utile/special.html) with a piece of code
> explaining how to convert iso8859-1 to UTF8 but I still didn't manage to
> achieve anything.
>
> In fact, even this single call fails :
>
> glyph_index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face, 0xC3A9);

> 0xC3A9 being, according to this article, the code for the french "é". It always
> returns 0. Of course, I selected the unicode charmap and I also tried with
> several fonts, just in case.

You don't want to use the UTF-8 encoding of the char. You need to use 
the Unicode value itself - 0xE9 for e-acute.

David %^>

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