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Re: Future Unicode support

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In message <almarsoft.3869465234381739290@news.orange.fr>
 on 23 Mar 2012 Rick Murray  wrote:

> Next up, the font manager. I was reading part of the spec on the Iyonix
> site. Would I be correct in thinking the font manager can do on-the-fly
> substitutions, so - for instance, if the font is Trinity and you want to
> write "konnichiwa", it can pull in the kana from, say, MaruGothic or
> Cyberbits? If so, that's both cool and useful.

I don't think it's that clever.  The RUfl library, which is part of
the NetSurf project, can do this however.

There was a long thread on the RISC OS Open Ltd forums a few months ago,
which start off being around how keyboard input could be extended, perhaps to
allow an enhanced !Chars to insert Unicode characters into the stream even
when the alphabet is Latin 1.

I think Ben Avison was of the opinion that we just needed to switch the
alphabet to UTF-8 once things were ready, as most applications would probably
"just work".  The big worry I had with this, which I never got round to
expressing, is how applications are supposed to know how to interpret the
data in files they have saved on disc, files you get from other RISC OS
users, etc.

Clearly, applications still in active development can be rewritten to make
sure they record the character set used in files, if they don't already, but
for other applications, in my view, it is ESSENTIAL that there be some way to
allow them to continue to operate in a Latin 1 (or Latin 2 etc.) environment,
and specifying the work required so we can put bounties against the
components, like for the filing system improvements, would be very
worthwhile.

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 07:22 +0100
  Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 07:07 +0000
    Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 14:24 +0100
      Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 20:53 +0000
        Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-24 12:21 +1300
          Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 05:42 +0100
            Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-24 22:53 +1300
              Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 14:12 +0100
            Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 22:11 +0000
              Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-25 12:50 +0200
          Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 22:10 +0000
            Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-26 03:26 +1300
              Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-25 16:43 +0100
              Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 00:39 +0200
                Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-26 12:18 +1300

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