Re: [ft] German Letters with FT_Load_Char

[Mickey Gabel]

Adam Twardoch wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > If you select a Unicode cmap you should of course convert UTF-8 to
> > Unicode character codes, not latin-1.
>
> By "Unicode character codes", do you mean UTF-16 or UTF-32?
>
> Is the FreeType API designed to work with UTF-32 directly? If not, how
> does one render non-BMP Unicode character codes? Through UTF-16
> surrogate pairs?
>
> Best,
> Adam

AFAIK there are no surrogate pairs in UTF-32, because none are needed.
Unicode code points (20bit) are directly encoded in UTF-32, since there 
is enough space, meaning that non-BMP characters can be directly encoded.