Re: gtk, pango...glib?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Franco Gasperino" <franco total-lunacy org> writes:
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>   Sorry if this is the wrong list to ask on, but i was reading that gtk 1.4 will have
> unicode
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> support via the pango library. I was curious to know how closely tied gtk and glib
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> development are, and if there were any plans to have wide character support natively
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> under glib. I do a lot of development with glib-enabled applications which do not use
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> gtk, and this topic has surfaced more than once.

The dependency chain is:

GLib
Pango
GTK+

i.e. you can use Pango without GTK. Also, GLib contains the basic
Unicode text handling, it just doesn't have the stuff needed for
Unicode character display.

Havoc