Re: GnomeFontSelector

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:
> > On 09Oct2001 11:02PM (-0400), Michael Meeks wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] - gnome-terminal cannot be effectively pangoized.
> > >
> >
> > Is there a fundamental technical reason for this, or is it just that
> > it would be hard to restructure the code?
> 
> All the Pango layout, cursor handling, etc. algorithms are
> inappropriate. Terminals have to do special funky stuff. Basically
> Pango isn't designed for this at all.
> 
> If we wanted a terminal with UTF-8 support we'd want to look at what
> xterm does and try to use that code.

I'm not sure that we can effectively go that route, without a lot of
addon code, since we need full accessibility features for
gnome-terminal.  Most likely AtkEditableText, AtkText, and possibly
AtkTable.

Without an accessible terminal we are pretty much doomed to be
effectively "inaccessible".

So what is happenning with libzvt2?  I know there is work going on on
that library, and supposedly it was the vehicle for fully
internationalized gnome-terminal support.

-Bill

> Havoc
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