Re: Please font -> fontset

[Mikael Hermansson <mikeh bahnhof se>]

About font and multibyte characters(i18n) support checkout
http://www.pango.org this project sounds very intresting.

Pango would probadly merge into gtk >1.4

Greats

MikeH

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:57:23 you wrote:
> >On 17 Feb, nakai@mail.gnome.gr.jp wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> This is a patch for fontset. Please accept to the CVS version.
> >> Also all gtk_font_load() should be simply replaced to gtk_fontset_load().
> >
> >I am sorry for my ignorance but please, explain me, what is really the
> >advantage of using fontset. I think I know what `font' is, but notion of
> >`fontset' doesn't sound very familiar to me... I went through
> >documentation but I could not find any complete explanation.
> >
> >/Pawel
> 
> It is very important the authers really understand...
> 
> Some multibyte languages need 2 or more charactor sets to 
> show its whole strings completely. gtk_font_load() can't handle this,
> but gtk_fontset_load() can do.
>  
> See (in general X explanation)
> http://www.ainet.or.jp/~inoue/font/program-e.html
> 
> If you have some more question after reading this,
> please talk with the gnome core members. (because I'm not so expert... :)
> Havoc Penningon<hp@redhat.com> etc...
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> --------------
> Yukihiro Nakai
> 
> 
> -- 
> 	FAQ: Frequently-Asked Questions at http://www.gnome.org/gnomefaq
>          To unsubscribe: mail balsa-list-request@gnome.org with 
>                        "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

-- 

Totally free Linux/Windows applications at: 
http://www.bahnhof.se/~mikeh

Country: Sweden 
City: Kristianstad
ICQ: 64150878