On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Chris Wareham wrote:

> Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 11:59  PM, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >
> > > I'm therefor searching for a volunteer to rewite the Perl script
> > > "xfree/xc/fonts/util/ucs2any.pl" into a C program.
> >
> > I've started writing a shell-awk script that mostly does the encodings
> > part, but there's still a lot of detail work to be done to make it
> > functionally equivalent to the perl script, if anyone's interested in
> > collaborating...
>
> I've written a C version that so far parses the BDF header. The parsing
> should be in a separate function that either populates an array/hash, or
> records the necessary bits and writes the header to a temp file -
> currently it just writes to a file so I can compare with the output of
> the Perl script. My next step is to populate an array with the actual
> characters. If this is worth pursuing then please let me know.

I realize now, the problem with my idea, is that it doesn't reorder
the bitmaps into encoding order, which is evidently a requirement.
"gawk" really doesn't do well with large hashes, so "C" it is. I say,
go for it.

Frederick