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From: arnet@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Arne Thormodsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Display of mixed ASCII/Kanji strings in X11
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Date: 25 Sep 90 18:59:06 GMT
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Jack,

I've forwarded your question onto the guy who wrote our X11 Kanji
support, if he isn't too busy then he should be able to get to you.

In the meantime, I can (maybe) help you with two points (please keep in
mind that I am a total novice when it comes to X)

( rah-rah on :-)
1> HP doesn't have TWO output routines because we don't need them.  The
approach we have consistently tried to implement is "a character is a
character is a character" regardless.  The idea of segregating 8 and 16
bit output strikes me as somewhat klunky, with the HP approach the same
code work for German, Japanese, English, whatever.  Why use different
techniques for different locales?

2> HP's Asian fonts come in two files, the small one contains the
"ASCII" characters, the large one contains the "Asian" characters.  The
large file is an "associated" font to the smaller file, and is loaded
when needed.  The mechanism is automatic and transparent to the
application.
( rah-rah off :-)

--arne

Arne Thormodsen
Hewlett-Packard
CSG Internationalization

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