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

[Carl Worth]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:43:40 -0500, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> 
> Why the difference in fonts? If Cairo is the rendering agent for GTK+, 
> should they be using the same default fonts?

It's not a difference in the default font.

What is happening is that GTK+ (through pango) actually uses
_multiple_ fonts for displaying glyphs of interest. And as it turns
out, pango is using cairo to do that.

The only different part is that cairo_show_text currently looks only
at a single font to find glyphs for the characters it is asked to
display.

I would be glad to see this improved, but it's not really that
significant an issue. The cairo_show_text is part of cairo's "toy text
API" which is really intended to be used in demos etc. More practical
uses of cairo should use cairo_show_glyphs as pango does.

-Carl
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