Re: Glyphs Issue with Pango Fonts

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 10/26/10 10:55, Sarvagya Mukhi wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a research engineer at Software for Education Entertainment and
> Training Activities(SEETA). As a part of a project, I was working on an
> activity in OLPC's desktop environment Sugar. The activity i was working
> on is a word translator, and pango fonts are used for creating the User
> Interface and henceworth, used for the output . The problem i am facing
> is several glyphs are missing when used in languages such as
> spanish/italian. For example, Italian translation of "mast" is "alebro"
> but instead the application shows [box with cross]lbero. Similarly,
> several more characters such as 'é' are not interpreted correctly.

The "[box with cross]" means that the text passed to pango is not valid UTF-8.
 You probably are dealing with text in the Latin1 encoding whereas Pango
expects UTF-8.  Just make sure everything is in UTF-8.

behdad


> If a way can be suggested such that the issue is resolved using pango
> fonts or a suitable alternative, it'll be really helpful.
> 
> Looking forward to your feedback.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sarvagya Mukhi
> Research Engineer,
> Software for Education Entertainment and Training Activities
> http://seeta.in
> 
> 
> 
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