[cairo] non-ascii output

Evan Martin evan.martin at gmail.com
Mon May 16 21:20:32 PDT 2005


Thanks for the link!  I may end up using that.

For my project, though, I only need to render individual Unicode codepoints.
Is there anything simpler I can do?

On 5/16/05, Kenichi Handa <handa at m17n.org> wrote:
> In article <3a6f89fc0505161848374b9207 at mail.gmail.com>, Evan Martin <evan.martin at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > cairo_show_text() accepts my UTF-8 strings (and sets an error if I
> > give it malformed strings) but doesn't actually display characters
> > when they're not the standard ASCII characters.
> 
> > I thought cairo used fontconfig?  Is there still a layer missing?  I'm
> > passing names like "monospace" and "sans-serif" to
> > cairo_select_face(), and GNOME has no trouble showing these characters
> > in my terminal ("Monospace"), the character map ("Sans"), etc.
> 
> You may be interested in this page:
>         http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/cairo/index.html
> 
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> Ken'ichi HANDA
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