Re: [platform-swt-dev] Changes to GTK Font

[Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Boris_Shingarov@xxxxxxx writes:
> 
> I reverted the stream to GdkFonts because it is currently not working, and 
> other people were getting confused.
> I definitely DO want your help with the Pango fonts and related GC issues.
> 

I think you might consider sticking to GdkFont for now - we need to
add a Pango function to go from characters to glyphs without going
through pango_shape(). See the thread about 2.x plans on
gtk-devel-list.

The work that pango_shape() does is important - otherwise you can't
handle some languages - but handling those languages probably requires
pervasive changes that you don't want to deal with right now.

Havoc