[GRASS5] GRASS Asian/Indian character support

Glynn Clements glynn.clements at virgin.net
Thu May 31 00:19:23 EDT 2001


Markus Neteler wrote:

> >     I am a computer science under-graduate working on global information
> > systems for my project. I am working at Indian Institute of
> > Sciences , Bangalore , India where you visited  two years back. I
> > contacted Mr Shashi Kumar in civil department who is helping who gave me
> >  your reference to me . I am using grass for my project  and  request
> > your support and guidance for some work I want to do.
> > The fonts that are presently supported by grass are english based , but
> > I have to represent the labels on the screen in some local
> > language font (kannada , hindi) . I want to extent grass to support
> > unicode fonts (layer1 and layer2) . Can you tell me if there is some
> > documentation (apart from what is there in the source code) or any
> > person in your knowledge who is working on the same thing .
> > I am very enthusiastic about GRASS and this work , kindly help.
> 
> at time some developers are adressing the 8bit characters problem in
> GRASS. Actually support shall be there in the latest release GRASS
> 5.0.0pre1, however this is undocumented yet. I am sending this mail
> to the "grass5" developers list as well, where those people working
> on Asian character support are reading, too.

	s/asian/8-bit/

I don't think that the "support" currently extends beyond simply
leaving the top bit alone.

Supporting an alphabet with more than 255 characters would involve a
significant rewrite. Yet another good reason to scrap displaylib,
rasterlib and the driver API/protocol and start again for 5.1.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>



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