Re: Multilingual Graphs

[Jon Trowbridge <trow ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 12:41, Uri David Akavia wrote:
> Hello,
> I know that HEAD is being converted to utf-8 and Pango.
> My question is - will this conversion also cover creating graph labels
> with multilingual (specifically bidirectional) text? Or is this
> something that requires a change in Guppi, and what sort of change. If
> this is a change in guppi, could someone from that team tell me if they
> are working on it at all?

The GNOME2 port of Guppi uses Pango for rendering all text, and all text
(labels, graph titles, etc.) is assumed to be UTF-8.  So once GNOME2
Guppi is integrated with GNOME2 Gnumeric, we should be able to handle
Hebrew in the graphs without too many problems.

-JT