Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/09/05/14:37:59
DJ Delorie wrote:
>> If the current version of pcb is only capable of addressing 255
>> characters than that is the first hurdle to take.
>>
> The 255 is not official, either. Officially we support 127
> characters, plain ASCII, because our file format is plain ASCII.
>
>
>> Being able to address 2^16 characters (65k) may be enough ?
>>
> UTF-8 is the way to go. It's backwards-compatible with ASCII. IMHO,
> at this point it's foolish to contemplate anything else.
>
>
>> One thing I can foresee is that pcb files with Chinese fonts will
>> become larger.
>>
> We'd need a way to refer to an external font somehow, but then we have
> the problem of PCB files no longer being idempotent.
>
> Embedding large fonts might only be practical if we switch to a binary
> format that can embed the compressed font as-is, but we'd need a way
> to convert to-from text format, or use a container like zip, to work
> with existing tools that want a plain text file.
>
>
Hmm,
IMHO, it's better to embed the font in the pcb file and avoid the
"symversion" pitfall as in gschem et al.
Good for archiving/reclaiming *complete* projects as well.
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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