Re: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken

[dbailey27@ameritech.net]

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Ah, yeah, I got it. As usual I skip reading man pages and
just try to understand the theory based on the files, themselves.
It's more fun that way.

I just read file(6) and it confirms what I suspected.

Don (north_)

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From: dbailey27@ameritech.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:46:05 -0500
Message-ID: <d5095a9d9dfdb3ac914b9dd8dd855c8b@yourdomain.dom>

Hm, I think I get this.

So, each font has to have a map file that can redirect
certain clusters of codes to certain clusters of characters
stored somewhere.

Thus, the unicode font, itself, may not have mappings
for a given set of codes, unless there is a defined map
to files that specify proper translation.

So, if I were to implement Thai support in my favorite
font (/lib/font/bit/lucida/unicode.7.font) I would need
to alter unicode.7.font to point to a file that contains
specific Thai encodings?

unicode.7.font
	map ASCII? -> internal?
	map Cyrillic -> /lib/font/bit/lucida/cyrillic.??.?
	map Thai -> external or undefined mapping

Am I on the right track here?

Don (north_)