Package: gource Version: 0.12-1 Severity: normal Tags: l10n When I set my git user.name to a string containing Japanese characters and make some commits, gource only shows boxes where the Japanese characters should be. I imagine the same will occur for all other Unicode characters not yet present in ttf-unifont. I imagine the same will occur for filenames with Unicode characters not yet present in ttf-unifont. The problem is that FTGL does not yet support using fontconfig to fall back to other fonts for characters not in the default font.
You could ask upstream to add a QuesoGLC (libglc-dev in Debian) font rendering backend so that the font renderer will fall back on other available fonts for characters not in the default font. An example of such a backend can be found in Chromium B.S.U. Please note that Chromium is not GPL licensed so you cannot just lift the code from Chromium. More info about this option is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2009/08/msg00029.html Another option might be to use Pango and Cairo with an OpenGL backend, but I don't have an example for that, more info here: http://cairographics.org/OpenGL/ -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gource depends on: ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libftgl2 2.1.3~rc5-2 library to render text in OpenGL u ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.5.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.5.1-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii libpcre3 7.8-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.7-2 image loading library for Simple D ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-4+b1 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii ttf-freefont 20090104-4 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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