Re: Missing java.io character encoding aliases

Hi Sven,

Thanks for the quick reply.  Sorry I didn't give more detail about what I
was trying to do.
I am trying to run FOP 0.20.5 with IKVM 0.12 as a C# VS2003 application,
using FOP
to embed fonts in the PDF .

I am using FOP's example \fo\advanced\cid-fonts.fo along with a
userconfig.xml file that embeds
a  font and maps it to one of the existing Arial and or Gothic fonts used by
the cid-fonts.fo file.

FOP was dying when embedded fonts were being used when the
getUnicodeString() function
in \fop\fonts\FontFileReader.java made  a call to
String(a).getBytes("UnicodeBigUnmarked");

Once I added your patch for UnicodeBigUnmarked and UnicodeLittleUnmarked it
got past
this error, it then died on a to UnicodeBig, which is used by the
readTTFString() in
FontfileReader.java.

I did Google scans for UnicodeBig & UnicodeLittle and found references to
them using then
same UTF16LE / UTF16BE fonts.

I threw those alias references to UnicodeBig & UnicodeLittle in and now FOP
works and
correctly embeds the fonts.

You mentioned that these fonts are missing a byte-order mark, it didn't seem
to have
a negative effect.

Whether or not it should work is another question, and how long until it
causes a problem
with a different font?  Don't know the answer to that one..

Sorry I had a typo on my request of UnicodeLittled - it should be
UnicodeLittle.

> Is this important to you?

Adding these to your project right now isn't a big deal for me since I can
get around it by
adding these aliases to my C# code.

Thanks for your help in solving my problem ( your post about adding
UnicodeBigUnmarked
got me started on the right road )

Regards,

Kevin Foley
kfoley@xxxxxxxxxxx



The \fop\fonts\FontFileReader.java

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven de Marothy" <sven@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <kfoley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <classpath-patches@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: Missing java.io character encoding aliases


> >Hello,
> > If you haven't already could you please also add:
> > ("gnu.java.io.encoding_scheme_alias.UnicodeLittle", "UTF16LE");
> > ("gnu.java.io.encoding_scheme_alias.UnicodeBig", "UTF16BE");
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kevin Foley
>
> You're right in that these are missing, but they're not same though,
> since UnicodeBig and UnicodeLittle have a byte-order mark. These haven't
> been implemented, it seems.
>
> Although it'd be trivial to create these, I'm a bit hesitant to add new
> encoders/decoders to the java.io stuff, since we're really planning on
> scrapping them and moving it all over to the java.nio encoders. (as in
> java 1.4)
>
> Is this important to you?
>
> /Sven