[Cuis] Ropes & Unicode

[Ken Dickey]

Juan,

I was mainly referring to size.  The gnu-unifont truetype font which covers Unicode codePoints through 16rFFFF (i.e. less than full Unicode) weighs in at 16 MegaBytes.  And that is just the TrueType font info with zero the support code.

An interesing alternative, by the way is CDL (Character Description Language) which carries information for rendering CJK (> 84,000 character gylphs) in only 1.4 MB.  Rendering is basically painting the strokes which make up the characters.  

I think this would be really, really cool in Morphic 3!!! 

See:
	http://www.wenlin.com/cdl/


This could possibly fit in a new-gen cell phone.


$0.02,
-KenD
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:03:20 -0300
Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
> 
> At https://github.com/KenDickey/Cuis-Unicode you say there's no support 
> for display yet. My yet unpublished Morphic 3 prototype can render ISO 
> 8859-15 using the vector graphics engine with decent visual quality (on 
> par with Mac & Win). If things go well, I should be able to include a 
> TrueType or OpenType interpreter, meaning that some support for 
> displaying any Unicode glyph is not that far (maybe a year from now). 
> This would be Freetype functionality.

> On 2/18/2013 3:02 PM, Ken Dickey wrote:
> > Ah!
> >
> > I Should mention is that good Unicode support is big.
...
> > Full Unicode does not fit well in a current-generation cell phone.
> >
> 
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