Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Have you any thoughts on how to make this frontend robust in the face > | of international font sets? Currently inputting same in the main LyX > | screen is likely to lead to a crash. I seem to remember that Huang > | wanted to stay away from pango although I don't know either it or his > | reasoning. > > I have kindo come to the opposite concluison. You want to use the gtk > facilities for all font stuff, you don't want X. If at all possible > all direct access to X functions should not be done.
Agreed. > (qt already does this?) Yes, although much pain must be endured to work around some of the half-assed things that Qt forces on non-unicoded apps. Witness the struggles that users of a russian locale have to display math fonts. The current fix involves setting LC_TIME=C. Go figure. > (I'd love to see it for xforms as well...) All contributions to the XForms project will be received warmly ;-) -- Angus
