Re: GnomeFontSelector

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 10Oct2001 01:27AM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 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.

What kind of things? I'm not sure what's special about a terminal
other than using a fixed width font rather than a proportional
font. Pardon me for this hopelessly ignorant question.
 
> If we wanted a terminal with UTF-8 support 

I'd have a hard time listing UTF-8/multilingual support as a key
feature of GNOME 2 with a straight face if the most commonly used
GNOME app does not support it...

> we'd want to look at what xterm does and try to use that code.

Does xterm support bidirectional text? If so, how is the cursor
handling different from what Pango does?

 - Maciej