Ah, thanks, I didn't notice a i18n mailing list. I'll try there.
Maybe if I had a list of font files, I could test each to work with a
given string, until I find one which works?
~Seth
On May 4, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
On Fri, May 4, 2007 9:23 am, Seth Price wrote:
I have enough fonts installed on my machine to draw most of the
world's UTF-8 characters. But they aren't all in one font file. How
can I use the resources I have to reliably draw any character using
imagetttext()?
For example: Most of the text I want to draw is regular ASCII, many
words contain Extended ASCII. Then some of it is Korean, Chinese,
Japanese or Arabic. I don't know when I'll come across what charset.
I want to draw them all. Is this even possible?
I don't think there is any one giant charset you could have that would
slap all the languages together...
The whole point of a charset is to set up correspondences between
numbers and the "letter" you see.
So every different charset is just a mapping from a number to a
"glpyh" (the physical representation of the letter, like a series of
pen-strokes, as I understand it)
And presumably the guys making up UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 didn't
make these numbers up just for fun, and actually have languages that
NEED 32 bits to represent every "letter".
I suppose, in theory, you could take every charset, and create a
UTF-40 which used 40 bits, and use the first byte (8 bits) for an
"offset" and then you could map your super-charset back to normal
charsets, assuming there are no more than 255 languages to support.
I guess if there's more than 255 languages, you're looking at even
more bits/bytes...
Sounds like a lot of work, though...
Maybe ask over on the i18n PHP mailing list, as they're way more
familiar with this stuff than most users here.
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