Re: The future of GdkFont declarations

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On 1 May 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> GdkFont remains, so that porting won't be nightmarish, but any code
> that uses it will not internationalize properly. There may be a couple
> legitimate uses for it, maybe for terminal programs or something.

BTW, I'd like to port GnomeAbout to Pango, for which I will need to use
pango_font_get_metrics and something to get the width of a given string (I
forgot the function's name, but I remember seeing it somewhere). However,
both of these need a `lang' argument. What is it for and what should I
pass there?

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