Re: gdk_fontset_load and font descriptor

[mcnichol austin ibm com]

> From: Christian Marillat <marillat christian wanadoo fr>

> 
> 
> >> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu faw uni-ulm de> writes:
> 
> > Am Fre, 2002-01-11 um 15.18 schrieb Christian Marillat:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> Then I did a quick grep in gnome-core and some font aren't translated in
> >> gnome-about/gnome-about.c 
> > Are you 100% sure translating font names is correct at all? I severely
> > doubt it, but would be pleased to be corrected.
> 
> For me no. I think this is a big hack.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Therefore, IMHO, it probably is a severe bug to translate fontnames at
> > all
> 
> I agree.
> 

Maybe "translating" font names is not the correct approach, but hard coding
them into the source code is no better.  There needs to be some method to
localize fonts for each locale.

Dan