Hi, I am now interesting in Pango, because it says it - can output anti-aliased text, - can handle multilingual text including CJK, bidi, combining, and Indic complex scripts, - can choose proper fonts for language (script) of (portions of) given texts, which means it doesn't force users to configure font settings to display non-Latin Alphabet texts, - can use multiple fonts for multilingle given text (one font for each language/script), which means it can display mixture of Japanese and Cyrillic when the system has Japanese font and Cyrillic font (even without a font which has both of japanese and Cyrillic), and - is free (meets the Open Source Definition).
However, I have no idea how to use it. Are there any tutorials of Pango? Or, are there any other text rendering engines which meet the above conditions? Concretely, I am now interested in the beta version of xplanet, which uses FreeType. However, FreeType is a low level renderer and it doesn't support bidi nor combining. It doesn't take care of supported codepoint/language/script range of fonts. Thus, I think FreeType is not suitable for application softwares but it should be regarded as a basis of other high-level rendering engines. Thus, the main developer of xplanet and I are searching a good text rendering engine and interested in Pango. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
