Re: Pango? (was Re: commit: abi: UTF8String class)

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 04:47:03 EDT

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    On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

    > At 3:17 AM +0100 4/22/02, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
    > >Pango is cross-platform
    >
    > Well, for those platforms for which the entirety of glib2 has
    > been ported - which as far as I know is....Linux, Linux and Linux.

    glib-2.0 builds fine and dandy on MacOS X.

    > >and is an abstraction that will use
    > >Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on Mac as well as
    > >FreeType on *nix.
    >
    > Not as I understand it. It will simply use FT2 - it does NOT
    > try to sit on top of UniScribe or ATSUI...nor why should it since
    > most of that logic is higher up in Pango.

    pango builds okay on MacOS X, although the reentrant strtok_r is not
    available so I don't know whether it's thread-safe.

    pango for X11 builds fine - but who needs it? - and pango FT builds fine.
    I haven't seen anything about pango w/ ATSUI but that would be interesting
    - please let me know if you hear more about that.

    Regards, Frank

    Francis James Franklin
    F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk

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