Re: Displaying iso 6937-2 character set letters in GtkWidget

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:31:11PM +0530, prabahar k wrote:
> I need a way to use iso 6937-2 set for display it in console or on a
> suitable GTK widget (suggest any) through a c program.
> I found that this set is available in
>    /usr/lib/gconv/    folder as iso_6937-2.so file.
> how do we use it in a c program. Please give suggestion about this.

To display any text in Gtk+ you need to:
1. represent it in UTF-8
2. have the corresponding Pango script engine
3. have suitable fonts

With these three ingredients, any Gtk+ widget can display
the text.  Without them, none can.

I don't know what languages/scripts ISO 6937-2 is used for,
so I can't tell what the situation is with 2 and 3.  However
if GNU iconv supports it, chances are at least 1 can be done
with g_convert().  Conversion to Unicode is nowadays also
the first step to display it esentially anywhere.

Yeti

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