Re: Gtk 1.2.10 & Xft

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:

 Hello, 

 It seems that you may be interested in using gtk with russian. If yes, keep
in mind that gtk-1.2.9 is completely broken at supporting russian (at least
koi8-*) (you won't be able to cut& paste strings with russian, and also you'll
see some rubbish in titlebars of windows) (though there are some patches to
1.2.9 that fix both these issues - I can send you them - and other than these
fixable problems with koi8-r gtk-1.2.9 pretty good). Also it seems that
there were no AA patches for gtk that are i18n friendly - so be aware that you
won't be able to use patched gtk with non-latin1 texts.

PS: I don't have Xrender-enabled X server and card, so I can't help you
further.

 Best regards,
  -Vlad

> Hello,
> 
> Some days ago I tried to patch 1.2.10 with the Xft-patches for gtk
> (http://216.254.0.2/~bos/gtk-20010311.patch). It failed (suprise :-).
> Anyway, I backtracked few gtk versions and the last version to which this
> patch works is 1.2.9. Then I did some manual comparison and it seems that
> major failures were due to change of handling multibyte-strings within gtk.
> The files that got affected are gtk/gdk/gdkdraw.c & gdkfont.c. It seems that
> the patches are doing the counting of strlen using an internal static
> function (since 1.2.9 doesn't do that much of counting in those parts of
> code) so I see the rationale.
> 
> My question basically is:
> 
> a) how heavy modifications do I need to do into 1.2.10 to get the patch
> working (I know C, I do not know neither do the time at the moment to learn
> the innards of GDK).
> 
> b) given that a is not feasible for some reasons (which?), would using
> version 1.2.9 be a serious crime? This is the last version against which the
> patch goes smoothly against.
> 
> I'm sure there are hundreds of people trying to do the same thing as I am,
> which is getting Mozilla to use TrueType fonts with antialiasing (and with
> truetype-hinting instructions as well preferrably). If there are any better
> (working) solutions to this problem, I'd appreciate any hints/pointers.
> 
> I get the impression that 1.3 with pango should be the right way to go, but
> then again I do not have the required time at the moment to modify innards
> of Mozilla to use different Gtk-version. This is why this minimal approach
> was selected.
> 
> Thank you and BTW thanks for GTK :-).
> 
> Aleksandr Koltsoff
> Design Manager
> Engineering Office Bertel Ekegren Ltd
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