Re: more missing boxed types

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 1 Jul 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> I think language bindings will _probably_ want to use non-interned
> strings for PangoLanguage. While its marginally less efficient, it's
> more convenient to use "en-us", then Pango.Language ("en-us"),
> lang.to_string ().
>
> The language property on GtkTextTag just uses a string, for
> example. It's perhaps a bit like PangoFontDescription in this manner.
>
> I wouldn't object to a patch to add boxed types for PangoGlyphString
> and PangoLanguage, though even they are a little marginal.

Okay.  I have put together the patch.  The details are available at:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56957

As well as adding typecodes for PangoLanguage and PangoGlyphString, it
moves the typecode definitions for PangoFontDescription and PangoTabArray
from libgtk to libpango (to match the policies for the other boxed types).
Patches for pango and gtk are included in the bug report.  I don't think
this patch will affect anyone (it may possibly affect people who were
using the GTK_TYPE_PANGO_* defines outside of gtk+ though) so I would
consider it a fairly low risk patch.

James.

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