[cairo] About cairo_show_text and UTF-8...

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Mike Emmel wrote:

> I looked at it and there is no reason you can't come up with a much
> smaller library then pango that has most of the functionality by
> removing gobject dependency and only offering a fontconfig/cairo
> solution. You don't need all the internal abstraction layers that
> pango has to interact with a number of font systems. For pango it
> should be trivial to wrap such a library.

And most users don't want fontconfig dependency on win32/mac.

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