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Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:24:18 +0200
From:	Bert Timmerman <bert DOT timmerman AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Chinese glyph rendering in pcb as symbols
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> I think keeping everything as a stroked font makes much more sense,
> since pcb doesn't support bitmap fonts anyway.
>
> The tricky part is supporting more than just 255 unique glyphs at one time.
>
>    
Hi Erich,

I can see the potential of including the ability to make these symbols 
available to the thousands, maybe even tens of thousands, of potential 
Chinese users.

It could open up a whole new user base providing we can get pull down 
menus and other text in the GUI translated as well.

The tricky part is how to implement them symbols into pcb, and agree 
with DJ point above as not to get additional dependencies for users, for 
users it should just work without a hassle.

If the current version of pcb is only capable of addressing 255 
characters than that is the first hurdle to take.

Being able to address 2^16 characters (65k) may be enough ?

One thing I can foresee is that pcb files with Chinese fonts will become 
larger.


Maybe it's time to start up a bug report in Launchpad so this idea won't 
be forgotten in a couple of weeks ?

I will try to find spare cycles to look into how characters are 
addressed in pcb and see what mechanism would be required.

Don't expect that this will be soonish as I have a busy schedule.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

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