On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, James K. Lowden wrote: > Hello, > > Someone on another list discussing a different GTK-based application > stated that GTK has a limitation: it cannot display "accented European > characters (French, German) AND > Japanese" in the same ... something. > > I know Dia is undergoing major freetype fontism and pangosity, and > wondered if anyone here is familiar with such a limitation? I'd like to > understand the problem better, if you wouldn't mind explaining it or > pointing out some resources. > > For reasons I've never really been able to enumerate, I want everything > to display everything, no -centrism involved. > > Hope you don't think this question is OT.
Quite on-topic. This was indeed one of the main reasons we switched to Gtk 2.0, to get Pango to do this kind of thing for us. I believe some snapshots were posted to the list a ways back. The big problem right now is input methods, Cyrille has been working on that for a while, and consistent font naming, which I have been hacking at. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
