Re: [ft] Still some accents issues :)

[Jan Slupski]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> Hi again everyone,
>
> 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.

You do not have to pass UTF8 encoded character. This is an error.
You need to pass Unicode index of the char in a 4-byte integer
(you can call it UCS4 encoded). For e-accent it would be just
FT_Get_Char_Index(face, 0xE9);

Also, do you call FT_Select_Charmap() to select Unicode before?
http://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Select_Charmap
http://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Encoding

Jan

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