On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:06:09PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: > Two things. First, I believe Pango is becoming the defacto method for > rendering non-Latin1 text in general purpose applications (I've never
I'm hoping we can remedy this situation. Xft/pango is extremely slow compared to the core X font system, and there's nothing wrong with the core system as long as the X/font server could communicate OpenType/AAT/etc. tables to Xlib for Xlib to use in correctly choosing glyphs. Unfortunately we're a long way from having something like this working, but in the mean time Xlib and core fonts should work fine for UTF-8 as long as you don't need context-sensitive glyphs. > used it but from installing apps I can see more and more apps depend on > it). Second, make sure you're in the UTF-8 locale. If you're not, > UTF-8 text will not be rendered properly. Also make sure a font with iso10646-1 encoding is selected... Any other ideas? BTW I don't know what policy on this list is, but in general it's considered bad to top-post on lists I think. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
