[postgis-devel] postgis_letters in project tree?

[Bruce Rindahl]

Just curious, can the function be easily altered to change the twkb to say
a cyrillic font if you have the data?  If so, that would be great.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 10:32 AM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> Using base64 encoded twkb, i can get the letters set down to a 22K
> function. So, I think maybe this just goes into the main postgis extension.
> (Assuming you're OK with my minimalist anglo no-special-font handling
> approach.)
>
> > On Jan 27, 2022, at 9:29 AM, Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 9:03 AM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> wrote:
> > I'm thinking of converting the letter/font table into a function with a
> fixed collection of letters, so that an install involves just two functions
> ST_GeomFromLetter(letter) and ST_GeomFromWord(text). ST_GeomFromLetter can
> be expanded over time to include additional letters for other language
> charsets. That matches the capabilities of the system to the needs.
> >
> > That sounds like the simplest approach.  Nice to avoid needing a table.
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