Re: severe problems with fonts under russian locale with gnumeric-0.71

[Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>]

We must thanks to Ximian's gnome-print, for that it makes most major GNOME
applications unusable craps for at least all CJK multibyte Linux/UNIX environment.
KDE(most are from Qt2 feature, though) and Microsoft(all are from evil proprietary
power, though) do this much better.

Gnumeric, gedit, dia, Evolution and all that depends on gnome-print are broken.
We cannot input Japanese chars into Gnumeric without patch because it uses font
lists from gnome-print but gnome-print doesn't have correct fonts.

I believe gnome-print is #1 in the hall of shame for GNOME i18n, and I wonder
why that name uses 'gnome-' officially.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:30:15 +0400 (SAMT)
Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  Gnumeric 0.71 contained attempt to improve font loading for multibyte locales
> (it was stated in release notes).
>  Unfortunately at least with version 0.71 there are severe problems using
> gnumeric under russian locale - with any font of any style and size, the font
> gnumeric uses for displaying russian is iso8859-1 encoding. It was tested with
> gnome-print-0.31 already containing my recent fix to gnome-rfont.c (that
> turned all gdk_font_load to gdk_fontset_load) - with that fix it would be
> impossible to get font not suitable for displaying all locale's characters.
>
>  This new behaviour makes gnumeric non-usable under single-byte non-latin1
> locales.
>
>  It would be nice if it was fixed
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Best regards,
>   -Vlad