NAME
    GD::Latin2 - ISO-8859-2 support for GD module

SYNOPSIS
    If you have successfully aplied this patch and reinstalled GD,
    you can call string with parameters containing ISO-Latin-2
    characters and they will be correctly displayed in the gifs.

DESCRIPTION
    This is a patch that replaces standard ASCII-only fonts in
    libgd, used by GD module, by those with full 256 char Latin2
    support. In order to put new fonts into the library, the source
    has to be changed and the library recompiled. That's why you
    need to have untarred GD library ready before aplying this
    patch.

INSTALLATION
    This is my attempt to make the patch easily installable.
    However, it may fail on your configuration, but do not worry --
    you can patch the GD/gdlib yourself, see below.

    Unpack this distribution next to unpacked GD distribution. Then
    run

            perl Makefile.PL
            make
            make install

    You will be prompted for a directory containing the untarred GD
    distribution. Then the files containing the fonts are replaced
    with those with ISO-8859-2. Also, libgd.c and gd.h files are
    patched to make them 8-bit clean. And, the fifth test output gif
    (that contains some texts) is also replaced, so that the tests
    run OK.

    You can of course do all this by hand: the fonts are in the
    fonts directory, you should copy them into the libgd directory
    in GD distribution, in Un*x using command like

            cp fonts/* ../GD-1.16/libgd

    assuming you are chdir'd in the GD-Latin2 directory and the GD
    distribution is unpacked next to it (in ../GD-1.16).

    Then apply the patches in file libgd.c.diff to libgd.c and that
    in gd.h.diff to gd.h file in GD distribution. The Un*x command
    using the program patch would be like

            patch -d ..GD-1.16/libgd < libgd.c.diff 
            patch -d ..GD-1.16/libgd < gd.h.diff    

    You can of course change the relevant files by hand, change the
    lines in the diff files marked by !.

OTHER CHARSETS
    In this package, I have also included my little script bdftogd
    that creates gd font definitions from those in bdf file format.
    So you can run your favorite ISO-8859-1 or so fonts through it
    and make use of them.

BUGS
    You have to reinstal this patch whenever you upgrade your GD
    package.

    The small font has changed from 6x12 to 6x13 in ISO-8859-2
    version.

    The bdftogd convertor is really a simple hack that suits my
    needs. You are welcome to find problems and send me patches to
    make it more general.

CHANGES
    0.53

    Bug with "Up" characters fixed, spotted by Michal Brandejs. This
    resulted in a change in function prototype in libgd.c and also
    in gd.h, because eight bit characters cannot be treated as
    signed. We need to have them either as ints or as unsigned
    chars.

    0.51

    Better font found for 5x8, also the Giant font generated.

    0.5

    First release, put on CPAN; Lincoln Stein responds by saying he
    wants to apply the patch directly into the GD package.

VERSION
    0.53

AUTHOR
    Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz

    http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/

    at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech
    Republic