Re: Question on displaying chinese chars within cells

[Zenith Lau <zenithlau sniic com>]

Thanks for you reply first!!

I am using GTK1.2.10
I am not familiar with GTK2 or even GTK1.4!!
Can I use pango with GTK1.2, or I have to upgrade all the g* lib to gtk1.4 or even gtk2??

Another questions, do you mean that gnumerice devel version is 1.1.x?? Is it stable enough, or still unstable?

Thanks
Zenith.

On Mon, 27 May 2002 08:45:50 -0400
Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:23:56PM +0800, Zenith Lau wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > This is my first mail on this list!! I have just compiled gnumeric 1.0.6. However, I find a problem. When 
> > I input chinese characters into the cells, it can't be displayed correctly. I think that, the problem is 
> > caused by the fonts setting.
> >
> > How can I solve this problem??
> >
> > If the answer is quite trouble some, or hard to explain me with a mail.
> > Pointers for further information is welcomed!!
> >
> > I have also try to solve my problem by looking at the code, but I failed,
> > as I am not faimilar with GTK, and gnome library. (I just know a little bit on it).
> >
> > BTW, would you mind tell me, which files (.c/.h) is storing the code, which can let me know something 
> > about, the font and multibyte issue handling within gnumeric??
> >
> > PS: Nice to meet you all ^^
>
> I'm sorry to say that it is not something that can easily be fixed
> in gnumeric 1.0.x.  There are many many places in that code that are
> not multibyte aware.  Red hat has some patches that bandaid the
> problem but nothing that fixes it.  The development version of
> gnumeric is now using utf8 internally as is partially converted to
> pango.  It will be able to support chinese characters.
>
> Hope that helps
>     Jody