Re: pango

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> 
> -> Who is supporting pango?
> 
> 	Owen Taylor, although he has been very busy lately with other
> stuff.
> 
> ->  Vim seems to be working on unicode and it seems
> -> like an excellent idea to market pango to them.
> 
> 	Isn't Vim a fixed-width character-based application?  Pango's
> layout engine works with thousandths of pixels, not really sensible for
> terminal apps... (at least, to the best of my knowledge)

Pango would only be useful for the GTK version (ie gvim) not vim in
itself.  Since it uses GTK for it's interface it can use pango once they
migrate to 1.4.  (1.3.1 already has pango integrated)

	sri