| RE: [platform-swt-dev] Changes to GTK Font |
I will heed your advice. Boris, where would you like
me to focus?
-Jeff
> 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
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