Re: Can pango work with GTK+1.2?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Jimmy Lin" <jimmycllin hotmail com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to input/display Unicode with stable release of GTK+ (version 1.2), but it seems that the API does not support handling unicode in GTK+1.2. So anyone is working with this issue? Is it true that Pango with GTK+1.3/2.0 is the ONLY solution for unicode handling?

If your C library / X configuration supports UTF-8 locales, you can
use GTK+-1.2 in a UTF-8 locale.

But yes, Pango and comprehensive unicode support is a very large part
of the difference between GTK+-1.2 and 2.0.

Regards,
                                        Owen