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List:       xfree-fonts
Subject:    Re: [Fonts] Complex text layout and mapping screen coordinates
From:       Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn () cl ! cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2002-02-26 13:32:56
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Keyur Shroff wrote on 2002-02-26 08:57 UTC:
> > The X protocol is not specified in terms of code points
> > of character sets.
> 
> See 'man XDrawString'. See the defination of "string"
> 
>      string    Specifies the character string.
> 
[...]
> At all these places I found the indication of using
> character string in protocol request? Where are the glyph
> codes?

The X11 protocol predates the modern ISO/Unicode character/glyph model
by many years. You won't get anywhere by interpreting old standards with
modern terminology. X11 never considered the distinction between a
character and a glyph in the modern sense.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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