[poppler] Encoding of font names

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts, 30 d'agost de 2011, suzuki toshiya vàreu escriure:
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>> Any idea what is the proper manipulation one has to do over BaseFont
> >>> to
> >>> get the Unicode value?
> >> 
> >> I think if we can request iconv for the users who are interested
> >> in non-Unicode or non-ASCII font name, the conversion is not so
> >> difficult.
> > 
> > Using iconv from the code seems like a bit of a huge hack to me
> 
> Umm, sorry, my poor English might have slipped to describe what
> I thought.
> 
> At present, libiconv (or iconv() in libc) is not required function
> for poppler. poppler cpp wrapper requires iconv(), but other part
> does not use iconv() at all. If it is acceptable to use iconv()
> in other parts, it would be easy to make a hook to translate
> non-Unicode legacy CJK encoding to Unicode string. Do you think
> using iconv() (in poppler, out of cpp wrapper) is too huge hack?

Ah, that sounds better.

But let's wait for Leonard to see if he can explain how to convert 0xCB 0xCE 
0xCC 0xE5 to 宋体 by means of using UTF8 as the spec says.

Albert


> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
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