[magick-users] UTF-8 and X11 iso10646-1 fonts using C++ API on linux

[Greg Denton]

You did not provide any information about the the actual API for
drawing UTF-8 strings. Is there sample code you could point to?

Also, the TrueType fonts that I have experimented with are very blurry
at font sizes 10pt or less. Only bit mapped fonts work well enough.

Thanks.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Anthony Thyssen
<A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:43:07 -0800
> Greg Denton <greg.denton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> | ..er..I didn't mention ISO-8859. How is UTF-8 supported with fonts?
> | Which API's and fonts should be used? In particular, on a linux box
> | (CentOS 5.2)?
> |
> | I assumed the iso10646-1 fonts would work as they seemed to be
> | designed for UTF-8.
> |
> Generally you would use the TTF fonts.  but not all have all the UTF-8
> character defined (there are a lot of them). Especially the Chinese
> Characters which have 3 to 4 times more than ALL the other sets combined!
>
> Microsoft Arial  Family and others define most of them.
> The Microsoft Mincho Font defines the Asian characters.
>
> Under Linux the packages  cjkunifonts-ukai and cjkunifonts-uming
> provides TTF fonts  ukai.ttf and   uming.ttf  for chinese
> with lots of symbolic links from any other places to the same fonts.
>
> I have no idea about MacOSX
>
>
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