<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Aug 21, 2006, at 15:57, Nicolas George wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Le quartidi 4 fructidor, an CCXIV, Travis Griggs a écrit :</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2) I have some cases, where I want to select fonts for different <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">encodings. To display mixed language texts.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ObPedantic: it is not correct to speak about different _encodings_ in this</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">context. Cairo uses UTF-8, only UTF-8, and it covers approximatively all the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">languages in the world.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">A correct term would be "script".</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Thank you for the corrections. I like to get the terms right, and appreciate your gentle pushing me to get it right. :)</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>For that, I'm going to <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">have to get comfy with FcPattern and pattern it looks like. Can <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">anyone point me to some sample code/tutorial/whatever that would <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">jumpstart figuring out what a common pattern is for doing this stuff.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Are you sure you want to reinvent the wheel? If not, just use Pango: it is</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">slow, but it does a great work of merging fonts, and handling</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">multidirectional scripts.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hmm... So I looked at the link from the other post. I really am torn. Pango looks really cool. But it looks big too. What I'm doing is creating a language binding to Cairo for VisualWorks Smalltalk so that I can have nice pretty AA graphics under Linux/X11. To bind Pango, it looks like I get into another library just about as big, as well as Gnome stuff (I assume that's what GObject comes from). I liked the "one library" linkage simplicity when it was just Cairo.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The Cairo guys have been pretty helpful with language binding issues for Cairo; I assume because it's been done before. Are there "other language" bindings for Pango? Is there a "high level" view of the Pango stuff? The cairo guys pointed me to some presentation slides of Carl Worth's, as well as the sample code examples.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Travis Griggs</DIV><DIV>Objologist</DIV><DIV>"I choose. 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