Re: [Muine] the osd plugin...encoding..unicode ;>

[Pedro Villavicencio Garrido <pvillavi mi cl>]

Hey,

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:46 +0100, G�r Farkas wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i like a lot the osd plugin...
> 

thanks.

> question:
> as i see it uses the "old" font handling system...
> 
> i'm talking about stuff like this:
> "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans-*-*-*-*-*-400-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 

Yep it's because libxosd handle the fonts like that.
> my problem:
> 
> i have some mp3s with japanese chars, and xosd does not display them 
> correctly...
> 
> any ideas what do i have to set?

this is because some characters(glyphs) are not present in the specified
font and that characters are replaced with the defaults one.

have you probe changing the default font ? example : 
-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-320-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> maybe the encoding somehow?
> 
> the problem is that i really don't know how to write these 
> font-descriptors...

you can select with : xfontsel

> 
> (btw. would be nice to have this string also gconf-configurable)

yep, im gonna do that

> 
> btw2: is there some kind of xosd-for-gtk2 (pango maybe?), or simply 
> xosd-with-xft? ;>

im testing the pango layout for it.

thanks for use the plugin :).
Saludos!
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Pedro Villavicencio Garrido
http://zapdos.codemonkey.cl