Re: gnome-terminal and pango

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

vte, the terminal backend that gnome-terminal uses, doesn’t
use pango. Complex text layout and fixed-width environments
don’t mix well.

I personally would like to see a fixed-width mode in pango
but that would be a lot of work.

Noah

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 19:10:37 +0530, Dipali Choudhary wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Redhat-9
>  gnome-terminal 2.5 and pango-1.2.1
> gnome-terminal shows devanagari characters, but rendering is not accurate.
> How can I use pango for proper display of devnagari characters on
> gnome-terminal?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> dipali