From: Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>
Cc: emacs-unicode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: encoding of font-name with unicode branch new font-backend
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:56:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7iejrbvbcp.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GsHJm-0000Zr-9R@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu\, 07 Dec 2006 20\:21\:34 +0900")
>> but I'm not sure which layer has the knowledge that the string is
>> actually utf-8...
Theory: it is always UTF-8.
Practice: it will always be UTF-8 for fonts in the TrueType/OpenType
format. For fonts in weird formats, all bets are off.
I suggest you treat it as UTF-8, but you should be robust if it turns
out not to be well-formed UTF-8.
Juliusz
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-07 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-07 8:06 encoding of font-name with unicode branch new font-backend Miles Bader
2006-12-07 11:21 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-12-07 11:28 ` James Cloos
2006-12-07 12:47 ` James Cloos
2006-12-07 12:56 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-12-07 17:56 ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]
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