[postgis-devel] postgis_letters in project tree?

[Bruce Rindahl]

Darafei
Send me a link to a cyrillic font you like from the noto-fonts and I'll use
that to test.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 2:08 PM Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski <
me at komzpa.net> wrote:

> I like this way. Believe we only need one function really.
>
> (I called this ST_GeomFromText in my head for a bit...)
>
> пт, 28 сту 2022, 00:38 карыстальнік Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> напісаў:
>
>> Here's the two functions. I think putting these into the default postgis
>> extension makes sense, they are small and then we have letter magic
>> available for doco etc wherever we want.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/pramsey/2020ef463a8880edc7e23c56420d7df8
>>
>> P
>>
>> > On Jan 27, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Using base64 encoded twkb, i can get the letters set down to a 22K
>> function. So, I think maybe this just goes into the main postgis extension.
>> (Assuming you're OK with my minimalist anglo no-special-font handling
>> approach.)
>> >
>> >> On Jan 27, 2022, at 9:29 AM, Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 9:03 AM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
>> wrote:
>> >> I'm thinking of converting the letter/font table into a function with
>> a fixed collection of letters, so that an install involves just two
>> functions ST_GeomFromLetter(letter) and ST_GeomFromWord(text).
>> ST_GeomFromLetter can be expanded over time to include additional letters
>> for other language charsets. That matches the capabilities of the system to
>> the needs.
>> >>
>> >> That sounds like the simplest approach.  Nice to avoid needing a
>> table.
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