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2000.01.19 17:42 "RE: Unicode build of libtiff?", by Richard J. Otter
- 2000.01.19 21:27 "RE: Unicode build of libtiff?", by Leonard Rosenthol
- 2000.01.19 23:13 "RE: Unicode build of libtiff?", by Bryan H. Maret
- 2000.01.20 14:21 "RE: Unicode build of libtiff?", by Dirk Haun
2000.01.20 07:25 "RE: Unicode build of libtiff?", by Leonard Rosenthol
The (still unreleased) TIFF 7.0 spec does provide a 2-byte Unicode data type, and Unicode versions of all of the Baseline text fields. Yet another reason that I wish Adobe would release the spec....
Figures ;).
I don't know enough about Unicode to comment on Leonard's suggestion about encoding into UTF-8. Would that break a non-Unicode-aware Baseline TIFF reader?
Nope! UTF-8 encoding is the same as ASCII for all values <=255, so all Roman/Latin based language information would look and act the same. For other languages (CJK, being the big example) a non-UTF-8 savvy reader would simply display strange looking values but would be able to handle it OK.
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