Re: Non-ascii characters break Cairo's show_text

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> The remaining problem is that I was not able to easily get the
> $layout->set_font_description working to set the font from I get from
> the FontSelectionDialog. BTW, I find parsing what it returns in
> get_font_name difficult.

You shouldn't need to parse anything.  gtk_font_selection_get_font_name()
creates its result by calling pango_font_description_to_string(), so on your
end it should be as simple as

  $font_name = $font_selection->get_font_name ();
  $font_desc = Gtk2::Pango::FontDescription->from_string ($font_name);
  $layout->set_font_description ($font_desc);

(Disclaimer: i'm going only from code and docs, i haven't tried it.)

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