Re: Printing with utf-8 characters on Windows

On 07/01/2010 10:24, bill lam wrote:
> 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.

Assuming you are talking gdi as in windows, then no it isn't. I believe
it just needs an appropriate call to re-encode the character for the
encoding being used for printing. It just hasn't been a big enough itch
for any VIM developer.

Mike
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