[GRASS5] Re: Freetype failure

[roger at spinn.net]

Thanks, Glynn. 

Incidentally, FreeType is not limited to TrueType fonts.  It can use several 
different font formats.  Just the same, its' unlikely anyone is mapping with 
symbols beyond the BMP. 


Roger Miller 


Glynn Clements writes: 

> 
> Roger Miller wrote: 
> 
>> On composing a reply I found myself repeating things I've said before.
>> I think that by definition that means this discussion is going nowhere.
>> All I can really ask is that someone fix the features that caused my
>> original problems.
> 
> I've applied fixes locally for the size_t and memset() issues, but
> haven't had chance to test them. 
> 
> I've attached the patch (against current CVS) if anyone else wants to
> check them. 
> 
> I haven't changed from UCS-2 to UCS-4; there doesn't seem much point
> unless there actually exists a TrueType font which uses codepoints
> outside the BMP. 
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> 
>