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Subject: Re: [geda-help] gEDA unicode in Windows
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On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 22:51 +0400, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 08:43:05PM -0400, Enoch H Wexler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A Windows XP based colleague needs to convert my work from schematics
> > to a printed circuit board.
> > He is complaining that no gSchem snapshot/release from DJ's Windows
> > page shows Unicode symbols such as ㏀, etc.
> > Any help?

Actually, I don't think gschem copes properly with _printing_ generic
unicode symbols. On-screen should work just fine, but IIRC, the printing
code has not yet been updated to use cairo rendering.

I vaguely recall that certain symbols (possibly including omega) did
previously print to post-script correctly, but going forward - I think
we were hoping to use Cairo for printing, which should make things "just
work" for any unicode glyphs.

I also vaguely recall having a branch somewhere which hacked in cairo
printing for this kind of occasion, but I can't remember what its state
is now.

I'll wait for the 1.8.0 release to stabilise for a little while, then
will look and see if it is worth building a windows version against that
with my old cairo printing patches applied.


Best wishes,

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Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk>

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