[cairo] Need Help :cario support to japanese

[Arjen Nienhuis]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 15:13, kumaran rajendran <anbutirumalai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> Thanks in advance,
> I have developed reporting application(desktop based) in c++ with cairo
> which support English and some European languages(some utf 16). I want
> to extend my application to support Japanese too. Please advice me on how to
> do this (my current application uses toy text api).

Use a font that has japanese characters. It should work with cairo.

For better text handling it's better to use pango. Pango will
automatically select a font that has the needed characters.

Greoten, Arjen