Re: Printing with utf-8 characters on Windows

mer, 06 Jan 2010, Mike Williams skribis:
> If you are using true multiple-byte characters (i.e. ones not present
> in any of the ISO-8859 or cp character sets) then you will need to
> use a multi-byte font and the big issue is with handling them - their
> discovery on the host system, metrics calculation for text layout,
> selection of a sub-set of the contents (multi-byte fonts tend to be
> large - do you want to generate a 12MB PS file to print <1K of
> text?), and embedding in the generated PS.
>
> Not a trivial problem to solve at the time. When discussed with Bram
> it was decided this was not wanted. Dunno if time has changed the
> argument at all.

While I don't know how to print in PS or gtk, however, from my
experience in using gdi api to print unicode CJK in window, I don't
think it is all that difficult to print CJK character.

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