Re: Medic needed for platform overview Pango screenshot

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

O/H Federico Mena Quintero έγραψε:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 02:00 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>
>   
> > It appears that strings come from the translations of libgnomeprint.
> > In libgnomeprint, there is a pangram message "The quick brown fox jumps
> > over..." and is localised to several other languages. This message is to
> > demonstrate the letters of the alphabet of a language.
> > I extracted all the translations and I put to the attached file,
> > pangrams.txt.
> > I selected several of them in "pango.txt" (attached) and I produced
> > http://flickr.com/photos/simosx/124448744/
> > (click on All Sizes to get the original).
> >     
>
> That indeed looks better.  Owen may be able to find more problems, but:
>
> - What's that big glyph in the fourth line?
>   
I think you mean the third line. That's Japanese,
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomeprint/po/ja.po?view=markup
> - Hinting is funny in the Greek line - it looks fuzzy.
>   
Indeed. I use the DejaVu font, which does not offer hinting currently 
for Greek.
Hinting for Greek in DejaVu is added these two weeks and I expect
that DejaVu 2.5 (mid-April) will be ok. I am not aware of any other
> - Is line 19 right?
>   
Line 19 is atrocious :(. It appears it uses glyphs from two different fonts.

An alternative to the pangrams in libgnomeprint might be to use
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-example.html
as it covers more languages.

Simos