[cairo] Accented characters and guimette

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 10/09/10 04:31, Nev Delap wrote:
> My problem is that running on Windows when it either does
> context.TextExtents() or context.ShowText() with guillemets or
> characters with accents, no subsequent output is producted. It doesn't
> get an exception, doesn't write anything to the console, it just doesn't
> draw anything more on that context.

Sounds like invalid UTF-8 is being passed to cairo.  I don't know what the C#
bindings for those functions is expecting.  You can query the context for its
error status, though I'd have expected that an exception be raised in such cases.

behdad