Re: [debian@tmail.plala.or.jp: Pango tutorial?]

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian tmail plala or jp>]

Hi,

From: Evan Martin <martine@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [debian@tmail.plala.or.jp: Pango tutorial?]
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:40:47 -0800

> > However, I have no idea how to use it.  Are there any tutorials
> > of Pango?
> There is reference documentation at
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/pango.html

Thank you for your information.  However, I don't know which part
of the reference should I read at least to display multilingual
UTF-8 text....

Nowadays, several softwares (which had been able to display CJK
characters) became not able to display CJK characters because
of migration from conventional X11 font ("XFontSet") to anti-alias
font engine which cannot handle CJK or proper font selection.

To stop this annoying situation for CJK people, we want developers
(who want to use anti-alias fonts) to adopt Pango (or other
internationalized engine) than FreeType (or other low-level non-
internationalized engine).  To achieve this, Pango has to be easier
than other non-internationalized (i.e., European-only) engines for
developers who are interested in anti-alias, and a tutorial for
Pango beginners is needed.

Are there really no such tutorials?

---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/