Re: [Groff] Some thoughts on glyphs

[Bernd Warken]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:34:47PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Yes, 32-bit characters won't make it into groff 1.18.  The ANSI C++
> > Standard Library provides automatic Unicode support; unfortunately,
> > we cannot use it for compatibility and security reasons.  It's quite
> > a hazzle to write a container/character library without using
> > streams and templates, but it seems to be possible.
> 
> Note that I need more than Unicode: Positive values will be real code
> points, while negative values will represent internal characters
> (there are about 20 IIRC).
> 
Seems to be a good candidate for some kind of class.

Bernd Warken