Re: unicode fonts and the GTK

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> Someone on another list discussing a different GTK-based application
> stated that GTK has a limitation: it cannot display "accented European
> characters (French, German) AND
> Japanese" in the same ... something.  
>
> I know Dia is undergoing major freetype fontism and pangosity, and
> wondered if anyone here is familiar with such a limitation?  I'd like to
> understand the problem better, if you wouldn't mind explaining it or
> pointing out some resources.  
>
> For reasons I've never really been able to enumerate, I want everything
> to display everything, no -centrism involved.
>
> Hope you don't think this question is OT.  

Quite on-topic.  This was indeed one of the main reasons we switched to Gtk
2.0, to get Pango to do this kind of thing for us.  I believe some
snapshots were posted to the list a ways back.  The big problem right now
is input methods, Cyrille has been working on that for a while, and
consistent font naming, which I have been hacking at.

-Lars

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