Re: GnomeFontSelector

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:
> On 09Oct2001 11:02PM (-0400), Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > [1] - gnome-terminal cannot be effectively pangoized.
> > 
> 
> Is there a fundamental technical reason for this, or is it just that
> it would be hard to restructure the code?

All the Pango layout, cursor handling, etc. algorithms are
inappropriate. Terminals have to do special funky stuff. Basically
Pango isn't designed for this at all.

If we wanted a terminal with UTF-8 support we'd want to look at what
xterm does and try to use that code.

Havoc