18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
3:02 p.m.
On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 09:00 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
We use Pango for text layout and Pango does not have the ability to handle
Surely the answer is to stop using pango for text layout? Even if it took a large project or several GSoC projects to make a full switch. I'm not sure patching pango up when we already use cairo makes much sense.
Not realistic even if we had 10 GSoC projects. Text layout for non-Latin text can be extremely complicated. Pango is Cairo's text layout solution. Cairo's internal text API is considered a "toy" implementation, mostly for internal testing. See: